Construction of this high-style Federal house began in 1825 with the plain south ell, followed by the far more decorative north main block. Master builder Lemuel Porter incorporated classical design features in the latter, including Ionic pilasters, . . . — — Map (db m290476) HM
Hudson, Ohio. Boyhood home of John Brown (1800-1859.) Abolitionist John Brown came to Hudson as a boy in 1805 and lived here until 1826. A frequent visitor to Hudson in the ensuing years, Brown attended services at the Free Congregational Church, . . . — — Map (db m158469) HM
This Chapel, in architecture
and tradition recalling Old Yale
College, the ideals of which inspired
the establishment of higher learning
in the Western Reserve, was dedicated
in 1836 to the service of
Almighty God
This property . . . — — Map (db m48673) HM
On this site, the first meetinghouse owned by the Hudson Congregational Church was dedicated March 1, 1820, twenty-one years after David Hudson first came to the Hudson area. Its members met here until they completed their sanctuary on Aurora Street . . . — — Map (db m36192) HM
Near this spot
stood the first log house
in Summit County,
built by David Hudson
of Goshen, Connecticut, in 1799.
It was the birthplace,
October 28, 1800, of the first
white child in this county
Anner Maria Hudson.
Erected . . . — — Map (db m41268) HM
On this site stood a log schoolhouse built in 1801, the first in Summit County. It was used as a meeting-place by the Hudson Congregational Church formed by David Hudson, its lifetime Deacon, and organized September 4, 1802, by Rev. Joseph Badger. . . . — — Map (db m36193) HM
Frederick Douglass, the formerly enslaved man celebrated as one of America's most powerful abolitionist voices, delivered a historic commencement address at Western Reserve College on July 12, 1854. Invited by the graduating students of the . . . — — Map (db m309438) HM
On this site in 1882, Gustave H. Grimm (1850-1914), a German immigrant tinsmith, established the G.H. Grimm Manufacturing Company. His device, the Champion Evaporator, revolutionized maple syrup production with the use of a corrugated pan which . . . — — Map (db m29261) HM
Hudson had a long tradition of being an anti-slavery town. By 1826, records show that the town's founder, David Hudson, was hiding runaway slaves at his home. Early settler Owen Brown and his family helped organize the Underground Railroad in . . . — — Map (db m189296) HM
On this tablet are inscribed the names of those who went from Hudson,
to serve their country in the World War, 1917 - 1918.
Ward Alcox • Gordon Allport • Roy A. Babb • Perry Beardsley • John C. Bennett • Stephen Berardi • Paul G. Bradley • . . . — — Map (db m302751) WM
Elias Loomis and Charles Augustus Young worked in this Observatory, built in 1838, the third to be erected in the United States, the second oldest standing (1926). — — Map (db m36202) HM
On this site, April 26, 1826
was laid the cornerstone of
the first college edifice
in the Western Reserve, later
called Middle College.
It marked the beginning of
Western Reserve University — — Map (db m48681) HM
President-elect Abraham Lincoln, en route to Washington for his first inaugural, stopped in Hudson aboard a special Presidential train on February 15, 1861. A crowd of over 6,000 people greeted Lincoln at the old Hudson Depot, located near this . . . — — Map (db m41269) HM
This house was built
in 1830 for the President
of the College and the
Professor of Theology.
Here lived Presidents
Storrs, Hitchcock and Pierce
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by . . . — — Map (db m48679) HM
Erected 1913-1914 by James W. Ellsworth.
Named for Nathan Perkins Seymour
and his son Thomas Day Seymour
teachers in early Western Reserve College. — — Map (db m302753) HM
With the help of town founder, David Hudson, Western Reserve College and its Academy were founded in 1826. Often called "The Yale of the West," the college saw success initially as nearly all of its professors and college presidents were Yale . . . — — Map (db m43418) HM
Civil War
1861 - 1865
Charles R. Pierce '39 • Marquis L. Holden '52 • John F. Hitchcock '55 • Dwight W. Murray '60 • Chester A. Buckland '62 • Clinton C. Chambers '62 • Ransom J. Ellsworth '62 • William Wilder '62 • William P. Williamson '62 . . . — — Map (db m302752) WM
