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HUDSON FALLS, a village of Washington county, New York, on the Hudson river, 58m. above Albany, adjoining Ft. Edward on the south and Glens Falls on the north. It is on federal highways 4 and 9, and is served by the Delaware and Hudson railway. The population in 193o was 6,449. It has ample water-power and important manufactures, producing annually some 20,000,000 rolls of wall-paper, thousands of tons of paper bags and pulp and other commodities. The village was incorpo rated as Sandy Hill in 181o. The present name was adopted in 1910.