104 Pearl Street
Next to the Hudson Area Public Library flagpole, sits a 420-pound rock, or is it a meteorite?
In the Autumn of 1866, the earth experienced a meteoric shower which left the opinion that “the end of the world had come.”
To many, it is just what it seems – a big rock. To others, it conjures up thoughts of a story more than 150 years old – the story of a meteorite landing in 1866 on the farm of Isaac Gildersleeve, just east of town. That debate began anew in June of 2000 when the stone was pulled out of the ground as the vacant Gildersleeve home was being prepared for demolition. After several experts examined the stone, it was determined to be a rock and not a meteorite. The rock most likely was brought to what is now Hudson on a glacier during an Ice Age. The rock, not a meteorite, is still a “star” in Hudson.