Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Hudson, WI

Hudson is a city in and the county seat of St. Croix County, Wisconsin, standing on the bluffs of the St. Croix River at the Minnesota border, about 25 miles east of St. Paul.

Hudson is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, and many of its residents commute across the river into Minnesota.

Hudson was settled in the summer of 1840 by French fur traders Louis Massey and his brother-in-law Peter Bouchea, who set up at the mouth of the Willow River near present-day First and St. Croix Streets.

The settlement was first called Willow River, then renamed Buena Vista by Judge Joel Foster after the Mexican War battle, and in 1852 first mayor Alfred D. Gray renamed it Hudson because the St. Croix bluffs reminded him of the Hudson River in his native New York.

The lumber industry built early Hudson: the Hudson Sawmill opened in 1850, and by 1872 it was one of 17 lumbering businesses operating on the St. Croix River.

The railroad reached Hudson in 1871, and the Omaha Road (the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway) kept its shops and headquarters in Hudson; the line is now part of Union Pacific.

Hudson had 14,755 residents at the 2020 census, living in 6,264 households, after growing from 8,775 people in 2000 and 12,719 in 2010.

Native American burial mounds from the Middle or Late Woodland period have been found in Hudson's Birkmose Park.

The Octagon House Museum, built in 1855 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of Hudson's best-known historic landmarks.

The long causeway of the old U.S. Highway 12 toll bridge over the St. Croix is now a public pedestrian walkway known as The Dike, reaching out into the river.