County

Penobscot County (set off from Lincoln County to Hancock County in 1789, to Penobscot County in 1816)

 Organized

1824 as Jackson Plantation

 Incorporated

1825 as Kirkland; name changed in 1855 to Hudson

 Previous Designations

Township No. 1, Fourth Range North of Waldo Patent (T1 R4 NWP)

 Villages, Locations and Settlements

Hudson, Ricker (former railroad station), South Hudson

 Adjacent Towns and Townships

Alton, Bradford, Corinth, Glenburn, Kenduskeag, Old Town

 Maps

Historical USGS Maps of Hudson, Maine

 General Resources

Family History Library Catalog: Hudson, Penobscot, Maine

Maine Memory Network: Hudson

 Bibliography

______, The history of Hudson, Maine, 1825-1976 (Hudson, Me.: The History Committee of Hudson, 1976)

Delana, Charity, comp., Vital records of Hudson, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2007)