Hudson, Massachusetts For geographic and demographic knowledge on the census-designated place Hudson, see Hudson (CDP), Massachusetts.
Hudson, Massachusetts Official seal of Hudson, Massachusetts Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Before its incorporation as a town in 1866, Hudson was a neighborhood and unincorporated village inside the town of Marlborough, Massachusetts, and was known as Feltonville, and before that, known as Eastborough.
From around 1850 until the last shoe factory burned down in 1968, Hudson was known as a "shoe town".
At one point, the town had 17 shoe factories, many of them powered by the Assabet River, which runs through town.
Because of the many factories in Hudson, immigrants were thriving to the town.
Hudson is served by the Hudson Public Schools district.
The first European settlement of the Hudson region occurred in 1699 when settler John Barnes, who had been granted an acre of the Ockookangansett Indian plantation the year before, assembled a gristmill on the Assabet River on territory that would one day be part of Hudson. By 1701, Barnes had also assembled a sawmill on the river and had assembled a bridge athwart it.
Hudson was part of the town of Marlborough and was known as Feltonville for part of that time, until its incorporation as a separate municipality in 1866.
As early as June 1743 Hudson-area inhabitants petitioned to break away from Marlborough and turn into a separate town, but this petition was denied by the Massachusetts General Court.
In the 1850s, Feltonville received its first barns s. The town of Hudson had two train stations, originally directed by the Central Massachusetts Railroad Company and later by Boston & Maine, until both of them were closed in 1965.
Two homes, including the Goodale Homestead on Chestnut Street (Hudson's earliest building, dating from 1702) and the Curley home on Brigham Street (formerly known as the Rice Farm), have been cited as way-stations on the Underground Railroad. The new town was titled Hudson after Charles Hudson, who donated $500 to the new town for it to build a library, on the condition that the newly incorporated town be titled after him. Over the next twenty years, Hudson interval as a several industries settled in town.
Two woolen mills, an elastic-webbing plant, a piano case factory, and a factory for waterproofing fabrics by rubber coating were built, as well as banks, five schools, a poor farm, and the town hall that is still in use today. The populace hovered around 5,500 residents, most of whom lived in small homes with small backyard garden plots.
On July 4, 1894, a fire started by two boys playing with firecrackers disastrously burned down 40 buildings and 5 acres (20,000 m2) of central Hudson.
By 1900, Hudson's populace reached about 7,500 residents, and the town had assembled a power plant, so some homes were wired for electricity.
Electric street car lines were assembled that connected Hudson with the suburbs of Leominster, Concord, and Marlborough. The factories in town continued to grow, attracting immigrants from England, Germany, Portugal, Lithuania, Poland, Greece, Albania, and Italy.
Today, the majority of Hudson inhabitants are of Irish or Portuguese descent, with lesser populations of Italian, French, English, Scots-Irish, and Greek descent.
About one-third of Hudson inhabitants are Portuguese or are of Portuguese descent. Most citizens of Portuguese descent in Hudson are from the Azorean island of Santa Maria, with a lesser amount from the island of Sao Miguel or from the Tras-os-Montes region of mainland Portugal.
The Portuguese improve in Hudson maintains the Hudson Portuguese Club, who, in 2001, rebuilt a state-of-the-art clubhouse.
The Hudson Portuguese Club was established in the mid-1910s and has outlived a several other ethnic clubs, such as the town's long-gone Italian Club.
Hudson's populace remained about the same until after World War II, when developers purchased some farms that surrounded the town center.
The new homes that were assembled on this territory more than doubled Hudson's population. Recently,[when?] high-technology companies have assembled plants, prominently the semiconductor fabrication factory that Digital Equipment Corporation assembled (now owned by Intel).
Although the populace of Hudson is now about 20,000, the town continues traditional town meeting form of government. Feltonville was the name of what is today the town of Hudson, Massachusetts.
Before becoming a separate incorporated town, Hudson was a neighborhood and unincorporated village inside the town of Marlborough, Massachusetts, known as Feltonville.
The name was derived from the name of Silas Felton (1776-1828), who directed a dry goods store in the hamlet from 1801 forward , served many years as selectman, town clerk, town assessor, and in 1828 became the first postmaster. The name was used from 1828 until the town was incorporated as Hudson in 1866.
Today, the Felton name is found in the Silas Felton Hudson Historic District and two street names: Felton Street and Feltonville Road.
Hudson has had other, earlier names: From 1656 until 1700, present-day Hudson and the encircling area was known as the Indian Plantation or the Cow Commons. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 11.8 square miles (30.7 km ), of which 11.5 square miles (29.8 km ) is territory and 0.3 square mile (0.9 km ) (2.87%) is water.
On the border with Marlborough is Fort Meadow Reservoir, which at one time provided drinking water to both Hudson and Marlborough.
Hudson is bordered by five other towns: Hudson Town Hall, assembled in 1872 The town of Hudson has an open town meeting form of government, like most New England towns.
The current executive assistant, who is an appointed official and is responsible for the day-to-day administrative affairs of the town and who functions with authority delegated to the office by the town charter and by the Board of Selectmen and by town bylaws, is Thomas Moses. The Board of Selectmen is a group of propel officials who are the propel executive authority of the town, which also appoints the Executive Assistant.
There are five positions on the Hudson Board of Selectman, presently filled by Joseph Durant, Scott R.
Technically, the county government was abolished in 1997, and former county agencies, establishments, etc., reverted to the control of the state government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
However, certain county government positions, such as District Attorney and Sheriff, do still function, except they are under the state government freshwater a county government.
In the Massachusetts General Court, Hudson is represented by Rep.
In the United States Congress, Hudson is represented by Rep.
Hudson students have two enhance districts they can attend.
The enhance school are Hudson Public Schools, a precinct open to any Hudson inhabitants and through so-called "school choice" to any region students, and Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School District, which is open to students from the suburbs of Marlborough, Hudson, Maynard, Berlin, Boylston, West Boylston, Clinton, Shrewsbury, Westborough, Northborough, and Southborough.
The superintendent of Hudson Public Schools is Dr.
Michael's Schools, a Catholic precinct run by St.
Quinn, a former principal, is a enhance middle (or junior high) school that serves grades 5 through 7.
Farley Elementary School is a enhance elementary school that serves grades 1 through 4 (and preschool and kindergarten classes).
It was assembled in the 1950s and was titled after long-time Hudson educator Carmela A.
The building has also served as the high school and the middle school. The principal is Sharon Mac - Donald. Mulready Elementary School is a enhance elementary school that serves grades 1 through 4 (and a kindergarten class).
It was originally titled the Cox Street School after the street it is on but was retitled after former Hudson superintendent Joseph L.
Forest Avenue Elementary School is a enhance elementary school that serves grades 1 through 4 (and a preschool class).
The school was assembled on the site of the old Broad Street elementary school where Cora Hubert was the principal and 5th undertaking teacher.
Kennedy Middle School (JFK) is a former middle school that served grades 6 and 7.
Where the school once stood is now the parking lot of Quinn Middle School, which replaced JFK.
Hudson High School, or HHS, is a enhance high school that serves grades 8 through 12 (HHS also has a preschool class).
Some Hudson students attend Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School, a enhance county-wide vocational high school that serves grades 9 through 12.
It was opened in 1973 and was titled after the Assabet Valley that was formed by the Assabet River, where the district's suburbs are.
Michael's School was a private Catholic major school that serves grades 1 through 8 as well as kindergarten.
The initial building was assembled around 1918, when the school was founded, and the school was administered by Saint Michael's Catholic Parish.
The school was in the former Hudson Catholic High School building.
In May 2011 the church announced the School would close at the end of the school year; it has since been closed.
Hudson Catholic High School, or HCHS, was a private Catholic high school that served grades 9 through 12.
The church announced only about a month before the end of the 2008 09 school year that the school would be closed by the Boston Archdiocese due to lack of enrollment for the 2009 2010 school year and, as a consequence, funds. The HCHS building was used as the St.
Hudson Public Library in 1907, a Carnegie library opened in 1905 The Hudson enhance library first opened in 1867. In fiscal year 2008, the town of Hudson spent 1.19% ($614,743) of its budget on its enhance library some $31 per person. First United Methodist Church of Hudson .
The current Methodist Church in town was instead of in 1913 after the first one, which was positioned athwart the street from the Unitarian Church, burnt down in 1911. The current pastor is Pastor Rosanne Roberts Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson .
The Unitarian Church is technically older than the town itself; it was assembled in 1861. The current minister is Rev.
Carmel Marthoma Church. The newest church in Hudson, the Carmel Marthoma Church was constructed in 2001, but the congregation traces its beginnings to the early 1970s as a prayer fellowship, meeting in the greater Boston area.
A very small fraction of the town's populace is Jewish and Orthodox, but there is not yet a Jewish house of worship or an Orthodox church in Hudson.
Hudson nevertheless has an meaningful part in the formation of the Albanian Orthodox Church due to the 1906 Hudson incident in which an Albanian nationwide was refused burial by a Greek Orthodox priest from Hudson.
Wilbert Robinson Born in Bolton but raised in Hudson; was a catcher for various Major League Baseball squads known best for being manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1914 to 1931; inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 Paul Ryan Born in Somerville, MA; long-time Hudson resident until his death in 2016; Comic artist on Fantastic Four and The Phantom Salmon Former Governor of Vermont, from 1973 to 1977; born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Stow, attended Hudson High School List of foundry towns in Massachusetts Hudson Portuguese Club (web site), a b c The Hudson Historical Society 1976 "TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1, All County Subdivisions inside Massachusetts".
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