History of the Hudson River - Wikipedia
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OverviewNamesPre-Columbian eraExploration, colonization, and revolution: 1497 to 1800Industrial Revolution19th and 20th centuriesContemporaryExternal linksThe Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river in New York. The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609, and after whom Canada's Hudson Bay is also named. It had previously been observed by Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailing for King Francis I of France in 1524, as he became the first European known to have entered the Upper New York Bay, but he considered the river to be an estuary. The Dut…
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