Resources
Additional Reading
Suggested Reading: Books and Articles:
The Gossips of Rivertown, with Sketches in Prose and Verse by Alice B. Nealy, 1850 Available in ebook format (check abebooks.com).
Historical Sketches of Hudson, by Stephen B. Miller (1862) (Available in ebook format (check abebooks.com).
History of Columbia County, New York, by Everts & Ensign (1878). Available in ebook format (check abebooks.com).
History of the City of Hudson New York with biographical sketches of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton, by Anna Rossman Bradbury (1908. Available in ebook format (check abebooks.com).
Diamond Street: The Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District, by Bruce Edward Hall, Black Dome Press Corp. (1994)
A Visible Heritage: Columbia County, New York: A History in Architecture, by Ruth Piwonka and Roderic H. Blackburn, first published by Black Dome Press, (1996)
Hudson’s Merchants and Whalers: The Rise and Fall of a River Port, 1783-1850, by Margaret B. Schram, Black Dome Press Corp. (2004)
Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait, by Byrne Fone, Black Dome Press Corp. (2005)
Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson, by John Brooke, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press (2010)
Hidden History of Columbia County, New York, by Alison Guertin Marchese, The History Press (2014)
Images of America: Hudson, by Lisa Lamonica, Arcadia Publishing (2014)
In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831, by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlbert-Biagini, Black Dome Press Corp. (2016)
Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley (SUNY series, An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley), by Michael E. Groth (2017)
Article: Federal Census of Hudson, 1860, by John Fout, page 8: Columbia County History and Heritage, Fall 2004, Published by the Columbia County Historical Society: http://www.cchsny.org/uploads/3/2/1/7/32173371/cchh_fall_04.pdf
Article: Did the Underground Railroad Run through Columbia County? , by Jim Hamilton, page 14: Columbia County History and Heritage, Fall 2004, Published by the Columbia County Historical Society: http://www.cchsny.org/uploads/3/2/1/7/32173371/cchh_fall_04.pdf
Links to Online Books
History of the City of Hudson New York with biographical sketches of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton, by Anna Rossman Bradbury (1908): https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9924546410&searchurl=tn%3DCity%2Bof%2BHudson%26sortby%3D17%26an%3DBradbury
Historical sketches of Hudson embracing the settlement of the city, city government business enterprises churches press schools libraries etc, by Stephen B. Miller (1862): https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9924678040&searchurl=tn%3DHistorical%2B%2BSketches%2Bof%2BHudson%26sortby%3D2%26an%3DMiller
The Gossips of Rivertown, With sketches in prose and verse / by Alice B. Neal. 1850: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22576851186&searchurl=tn%3DThe%2BGossips%2Bof%2BRivertown%26sortby%3D17%26an%3DNeal
Additional Websites of Interest
For more information on the City of Hudson, feel free to check out the links below:
Gossips of Rivertown: http://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/
Hudson Hall: http://hudsonhall.org/
Historic Hudson: http://historichudson.org/
Lake Taghkanic State Park: https://parks.ny.gov/parks/38/hunting.aspx
Columbia County Tourism: http://www.columbiacountytourism.org/
Visit Hudson NY: https://www.facebook.com/VisitHudsonNY/
Welcome to Hudson: http://gotohudson.net/historic.php
City of Hudson: http://cityofhudson.org
Local County Newspaper: https://www.columbiapaper.com/
Columbia County Historical Society: http://www.cchsny.org/
Daughters of the American Revolution, Hudson Chapter (Library and Archives): https://www.dar.org/national-society/historic-sites-and-properties/robert-jenkins-house
Hudson Area Library History Room: http://hudsonarealibrary.org/history-room/
Local Firemen Museum: https://www.fasnyfiremuseum.com
Summary of the National Register Designation Report for Hudson:
http://www.livingplaces.com/NY/Columbia_County/Hudson_City/Hudson_Historic_District.html
