In his portrayal of the rapid growth of Hudson, Benson Lossing describes it as a city bursting with industry in 1866
" It was founded in 1784 by thirty proprietors, chiefly Quakers from New England. Never in the history of the rapid growth of cities has there been a more remarkable example than that of Hudson. Within three years from the time that the farm on which it stands was purchased, and only a solitary storehouse stood up the bank of the river at the foot of the bluff, one hundred and fifty dwellings, with wharves, storehouses, workshops, barns &c., were erected and a population of over fifteen hundred souls had settled there, and become possessed of a city charter."
Arthur Adams in the Hudson River Guidebook says that the original settlement which was called Claverak Landing had a mill, a shipyard and two tanneries.
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