Hudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 23,110 at the 2020 census. It is a suburban community in the Akron metropolitan area. John Brown made his first public vow to destroy slavery here and it became allocation of the Underground Railroad. The Village of Hudson and Hudson Township were formerly two remove governing entities that multiple in 1994.

The city is named after its founder, David Hudson, who granted there from Goshen, Connecticut in 1799, when it was share of the Connecticut Western Reserve. The Village of Hudson, located in the middle of Hudson Township, was incorporated in 1837. In Hudson, David Hudson built the first Log House in Summit County. There is a marker at the intersection of Baldwin Street and North Main Street (Ohio Route 91), on the right subsequent to traveling east on Baldwin Street. The marker is embedded in the west slant of the boulder.

Hudson was the house of Western Reserve College and Preparatory School, founded in 1826 and created by David Hudson accompanied by others. It was spoken of as the “Yale of the West”. The College moved to Cleveland in 1882 and later, as Western Reserve University, merged afterward the Case Institute of Technology to form the militant Case Western Reserve University. The Yale-inspired red brick buildings are now Western Reserve Academy. The Loomis Observatory was built in 1838 and is the oldest observatory in the U.S. still in its native location.

The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad began relieve to Hudson in 1852. In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln spoke to just about 6,000 people for 2 to 3 minutes from the last train car at the dated Hudson Depot, near the south halt of College Street. The railroad done passenger support at Hudson, Ohio in 1965. A former train station (built in the 1910s) was that was located near the intersection of West Streetsboro and Library Streets was demolished in 2013.