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rif. vot215 — Arcadia Publishing 2009. Octavo softbound stiff sepia-toned photo. wrappers 127 pp. Fine. From lower cover: While Hudson was first settled around 1872 the community’s namesake Isaac Washington Hudson Sr.’s family did not permanently move here until 1878. By 1884 the new town of Hudson had been platted and the community’s first post office and school were built. In its infancy the community grew fast and residents relied upon the lands and Gulf waters for their livelihood. With the fast-growing community came the establishment of numerous sponging and fishing businesses in addition to farms. The banks of the big Hudson Spring were becoming the center of commerce and there the resident businessmen constructed their docks fish houses mercantile stores hotels and more. Today with a development on every corner and vacant lands becoming extinct it is extremely hard to imagine those times. Little of this past remains and in its place the bulldozers are paving Hudson with progress. Local historian Jeff Cannon traces his Florida heritage to the 1840s and is a fifth-generation Hudson resident. In Images of America: Hudson he presents the places faces and events that have shaped the community’s history and character. As the Old South ambiance of Hudson has passed with development so has much of its history which is demonstrated in this keepsake volume. paperback books