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HUDSON , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Columbia county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on the E. See also:side of the Hudson See also:river, about 114 M. N. of New York City and about 28 m. S. of See also:Albany. Pop. (1890) 9970; (1900) 9528, of whom 1155 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 11,417. It is served by the See also:Boston & Albany, the New York Central & Hudson River and the (electric) Albany & Hudson See also:railways, by river steamboats, and by a See also:steam See also:ferry to See also:Athens and See also:Catskill across the river. The city is picturesquely situated on the slope of Prospect See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill; and See also:Promenade See also:Park, on a See also:bluff above the steamboat landing, commands a See also:fine view of the river and of the Catskill Mountains. Among the public buildings and institutions are a fine city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, the Columbia County See also:Court See also:House, a public library, a Federal See also:building, a See also:State Training School for Girls, a State Firemen's See also:Home, an See also:Orphan See also:Asylum, a Home for the Aged and a See also:hospital. The city's manufactures include See also:hosiery and knit goods, See also:Portland See also:cement (one of the largest manufactories of that product in the See also:United States being here), foundry and See also:machine See also:shop products, See also:car wheels, See also:ice tools and machinery, See also:ale, See also:beer, bricks and tiles and See also:furniture. The value of the factory products in 1905 was $4,115,525, an increase of 58.1% over that in 1900. The See also:municipality owns and operates the See also:water-See also:works. Hudson,-which was originally known as Claverack Landing, was for many years merely a landing with two See also:rude wharfs and two small storehouses, to which farmers in the neighbourhood brought their produce for shipment on the river. See also:Late in 1783 the See also:place was settled by an association of merchants and fishermen from Rhode See also:Island, See also:Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The See also:present name was adopted in 1784, and the city was chartered in 1785. For many years Hudson had a considerable foreign See also:commerce and whaling interests, but these were practically destroyed by the See also:war of 1812.
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