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Hudson was founded by David Hudson of Goshen, Connecticut, who led a settlement party that arrived on June 17, 1799, in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and the town was named in his honor in 1802.

The frame house David Hudson built in 1806 at 318 North Main Street is the oldest standing structure in Summit County.

The Village of Hudson was incorporated in 1837, with Heman Oviatt as its first mayor.

Hudson was the original home of Western Reserve College, chartered in 1826 and nicknamed the "Yale of the West"; the college moved to Cleveland in 1882 and eventually became part of Case Western Reserve University.

The old college campus is now Western Reserve Academy, founded in 1826, which is the oldest preparatory school in the United States located outside the Northeast, with a 190-acre campus and more than 400 students.

The Loomis Observatory on the Western Reserve Academy campus, built in 1838, is the oldest observatory in the United States still in its original location.

Abolitionist John Brown was raised in Hudson from 1805 and made his first public vow to destroy slavery at a Hudson prayer meeting in November 1837, and the town became an active stop on the Underground Railroad.

In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln spoke to about 6,000 people from the last car of a train at the old Hudson depot.

The modern City of Hudson was created in 1994 when voters merged the Village of Hudson and Hudson Township into a single city.

Hudson had a population of 23,110 at the 2020 census, living in 8,049 households.