Hudson Falls (formerly Sandy Hill) is a village located in Washington County, New York, United States.
[6] As early as 1792, the area of Kingsbury near Baker's Falls was referred to as Sandy Hill.
With the opening of the Feeder Canal, Sandy Hill became a prosperous manufacturing center, producing lumber, paper, pianos, wagons, pulleys, and other products.
[7] Stone quarried in Hudson Falls was used to construct the Bennington Battle Monument (1889) and the Brooklyn Bridge.
In 1906, the Union Paper and Bag Company built the Fenimore Bridge (Sandy Hill Bridge), spanning the Hudson River between Hudson Falls built in Washington County and the town of Moreau in Saratoga County, since the company had plants in both locations.
The village is on the east bank of the Hudson River at the western border of Washington County.
[21] Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Hudson Falls at the station in nearby Fort Edward, operating its Adirondack daily in both directions between Montreal and New York City, and its Ethan Allen Express in both directions daily between New York City and Rutland.
Freight rail service is provided along a spur line extending from Fort Edward to Glens Falls that runs through the village.
The fictional town of Millers Kill, NY, in Julia Spencer-Fleming's mystery novels is loosely based on Hudson Falls.