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Hudson (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Columbia co., N. Y., on the Hudson HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY river, and on the New York Central and Hudson River, the Boston and Albany, and the Albany Southern railroads; 29 miles S. of Albany. It is the trade center of an extensive farming and manufacturing region and has steamship communications with all Hudson river points. Its manufactures include iron ware, woolen goods, cement, bricks, and machinery. It is the seat of the State Home of Refuge for Women, and has electric lights and street railways, public high school, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 11,417; (1920) 11,745.