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Footbridge and Tobacco Road

Footbridge and Tobacco Road.

This foot bridge crosses a deep ravine.    Underneath the footbridge is a path that in the 18th Century was known as Tobacco Road. 

Tobacco, in the 17th and 18th centuries, was a valuable form of currency. ...

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The Great Valley

 The Great Valley

Before the American Revolution, this narrow footpath, cutting through the Great Valley, was a major thoroughfare that linked Yorktown's busy waterfront district with businesses and government offices on Main Street.

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Western Reserve Academy

Two months after Ohio became a state in 1803, the Ohio State Assembly gave David Hudson and 12 others the right to found a college. Classes were not held until 1826, when the first building was erected high on a ...

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Old Tannery Farm, once home of John Brown

A number of Hudson Ohio's historic plaques reference John Brown.  The famous abolitionist came to Hudson with his family as a five-year old in 1805.  

John's father Owen, often referred to as Squire Brown, played a major role in ...

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Evaporator Works & Grimm Marker

Evaporator Works/Grimm Marker

46 Ravenna Street

A marker to Gustave H. Grimm on Ravenna Street was approved by the Ohio Historical Society and installed in 2007, thanks in part to the efforts of Hudson Archivist, Gwen Mayer.

Grimm, a German ...

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Lincoln Marker

In February, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took a ‘Whistle-Stop Tour’ from Springfield, Illinois  to Washington, D.C.  on his way to his inauguration.  Hudson, where he was greeted by more than 6,000 admirers,  was one of 29 stops he made in Ohio.  ...

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Case Barlow Farm

Case-Barlow Farm

1931 Barlow Road

The Cases, along with their five children and one cow tied to their two-horse covered wagon, left Granby, Connecticut in May 1814.   Arriving in Hudson 6 weeks later, the family moved into a log cabin ...

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Brewster Mansion

Brewster Mansion

9 Aurora

Brewster Mansion was built in 1853 by Frederick Bunnell as the home of Anson Brewster after a fire in 1842 destroyed the earlier family home on the same spot. 

Stories have his wife, Sarah White Brewster ...

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Meyer Sawmill

Swan Valley Museum Sawmill

The first settlers in the Swan Valley built their cabins from logs they felled with crosscut saws and axes. Benjamin B. Holland built one of the first cabins in the 1890s not far from Holland Lake. ...

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