Hudson is a city in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, its population was 12,719. It is part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The village of North Hudson is directly north of Hudson.

Hudson was established in 1840 by Louis Massey and his brother in-law, Peter Bouchea. William Streets arrived at virtually the similar time. Later that year, Joseph Sauperson (commonly known as Joe LaGrue) took in the works residence. These four are considered Hudson’s native inhabitants. Massey and Bouchea approved at the mouth of the Willow River, near the present-day First and St. Croix Streets. They had been part of a activity that lived for some grow old along the river under Fort Snelling, which appears upon some outmoded maps as “Massey’s Landing”.

Hudson was originally called Willow River. It was far along named Buena Vista by Judge Joel Foster, founder of River Falls, after returning from the Mexican War where he fought in the Battle of Buena Vista. In 1852, Alfred D. Gray, Hudson’s first mayor, petitioned to fine-tune the city’s broadcast to Hudson, because the bluffs along the St. Croix River reminded him of the Hudson River in his indigenous New York.

A large number of settlers arrived in the 1850s and 1860s, many of whom were ancestors of today’s residents. The lumber industry was the area’s prime attraction, and higher than time sawmills were customary throughout the St. Croix Valley.