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 allowance of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 7,281. It was the county seat of Washington County until 1994, when the county chair was moved to Fort Edward.

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

Around 1824, the Glens Falls Feeder Canal was build up to bring water from the Hudson River to the Champlain Canal. With the launch of the Feeder Canal, Sandy Hill became a prosperous manufacturing center, producing lumber, paper, pianos, wagons, pulleys, and further products. The Glens Falls Feeder Canal is no longer used public notice traffic, but the route of Canal is a fourteen mile long park, with a walking & bike trail upon the passй tow path.

Stone quarried in Hudson Falls was used to build 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.