Place:Hudson Falls, Washington, New York, United States

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Hudson Falls (formerly Sandy Hill) is a village located in Washington County, New York, United States. The village is in the southwest of the town of Kingsbury, on U.S. Route 4. Hudson Falls is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 7,281.^[1] It was the county seat of Washington County until 1994, when the county seat was moved to Fort Edward.

History

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In 1764, Albert Baker built Kingsbury's first sawmill near what is known today as Baker's Falls. As early as 1792, the area of Kingsbury near Baker's Falls was referred to as Sandy Hill. In 1810, the hamlet incorporated as a village, keeping the name Sandy Hill. Its boundaries expanded to their current limits in the 1840s.

In 1910, the village's name was changed to Hudson Falls.

Stone quarried in Hudson Falls was used to construct the Bennington Battle Monument (1889) and the Brooklyn Bridge. The former site of the quarry has been redeveloped for use by the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex Board of Cooperative Educational Services. The Glens Falls Feeder Canal runs through the village.

The Glens Falls Feeder Canal, Hudson Falls Historic District, and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable people from Hudson Falls

• William Bronk grew up in Hudson Falls. He managed a lumber business there and wrote poetry and other works, winning the National Book Award in 1982.
• Townsend Harris, the United States' first consul-general to Japan, was born in Hudson Falls.
• Henry C. Martindale (1780–1860) - Attorney and Member of Congress
• Tony DeSare (1975-) - Jazz singer, pianist, and songwriter
• Roger Skinner, member of the New York State Senate, and Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

Historic celebrations

In the first week of September around Friday-Saturday, there is an annual carnival to commemorate the 175th Anniversary of the founding of the Village. The "Sandy Hill Days" event is hosted at the Hudson Falls Kindergarten Center near the Knights Of Columbus (KofC), where there is also a flea market. it is also held in Juckett Park, the green in the center of the Village where route 4 meets with River Street.

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