Raymond Rush and the “Slug Brigade”
1875-1954
Plank Road
1850s
The Souburg Bell / Souburg Floods
Hudson adopts the Dutch town of Wester-Souburg
Hudson Defense Committee
December 1941-August 15, 1945
Abraham Lincoln visits Hudson
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) stopped in Hudson on his way to Washington, D.C. for his Presidential inauguration in 1861. The President-Elect’s whistlestop tour from Springfield to Washington, D.C. included over 90 stops in towns throughout Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. While Lincoln’s stop in Hudson on February 15, 1861, lasted no longer than three minutes, a local newspaper […]
The Bank Failure of 1904
Embezzlement scandal forces the Produce Exchange Bank of Cleveland to close
Hudson in the Civil War
The American Civil War came upon Hudson in the 1860s as much as it did in any city or town across America. Perhaps feelings were even stronger here owing to Hudson’s role in the anti-slavery movement, through Western Reserve College, the Underground Railroad and strong abolitionist sentiments. Hudson’s John Brown led the raid on the […]
History of Hudson
A Brief History of Hudson, Ohio
Hudson’s First Home Day
Coming Home to Hudson
Hudson’s Great Fire of 1892
On April 28, 1892, a cataclysmic fire destroyed most of Hudson’s business district and marked the beginning of one of the most important architectural shifts in the history of Hudson