Hudson Mills was a settlement along the Huron River, where the Hudson Mills Metropark is today.
The historical marker on the spot reads:
This hamlet developed around the mills which were located here to utilize the great water power of the Huron River. Cornelius Osterhout built a sawmill here about 1827, followed in 1846 by a grist-mill in which three men produced six thousand barrels of flour a year. Later a cider mill and a plaster mill became part of the complex. In 1882 a wood pulp producer, the Birkett Manufacturing Co., acquired the mill property. Across the Huron the remains of the Birkett mill and dam are still visible.
Several of the original settlers are buried in the Hudson Cemetery nearby.
