Hudson+River

The **Hudson River**, called //**Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk**// in [|Mahican] or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, //**Muhheakantuck**//, is a [|river] that runs through the eastern portion of [|New York] [|State] and, along its southern terminus, demarcates the border between the states of New York and [|New Jersey]. It is named for [|Henry Hudson], an [|Englishman] sailing for the [|Dutch East India Company], who explored it in 1609. Hudson originally named the river the Mauritius River in honor of [|Prince Maurice of Nassau]. Early [|European] settlement of the area clustered around the river. The area inspired the [|Hudson River school] of painting, a sort of early American pastoral idyll. The official [|source] of the Hudson is [|Lake Tear of the Clouds] in the [|Adirondack Mountains]. However, the waterway from the lake is known as [|Feldspar Brook] and the [|Opalescent River], feeding into the Hudson at [|Tahawus]. The actual Hudson River begins several miles north of Tahawus at [|Henderson Lake]. The Hudson is joined at [|Troy] (north of [|Albany]) by the [|Mohawk River], its major tributary, just south of which the [|Federal Dam] separates the [|Upper Hudson River Valley] from the **[|Lower Hudson River Valley]** or simply the **[|Hudson River Valley]**. South of Troy, the Hudson widens and flows south into the [|Atlantic Ocean] between [|Manhattan Island] and the [|New Jersey Palisades], forming [|New York Harbor], at [|New York Bay], an arm of the Ocean. The Hudson was originally named the "North River" by the Dutch, who named the [|Delaware River] the "South River." This name persists to this day in radio communication among commercial shipping traffic, as well as place names such as the [|North River Sewage Treatment Plant].[|[1]] It was the English who originated the Hudson name, even though Hudson had found the river while exploring for the Dutch.