Delinquent Girls Need to Farm
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Superintendent Fannie French Morse wrote in 1924 that the girls at Hudson should be able to farm. The training school boys do it, she said—why not girls?
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The "Ungovernable" Ella Fitzgerald
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On April 10, 1933, a fifteen-year-old “colored” girl named Ella Fitzgerald was sentenced to the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreSuffer Little Children
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In the 1950s, Marion Palfi, an immigrant photographer and member of the New York Photo League, took photographs of girls at the Hudson Training School.
Read MoreGloria's Memories
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In 2012, an envelope addressed to the Prison Public Memory Project was delivered to the Hudson Area Library. Inside were the memories of Gloria Hollenbeck.
Read MoreNo Place To Go But Up...
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Excerpt from our oral history with Thomas Tunney, Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY from 1964 to 1972.
Read MoreFirst Letter Home
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"Dear Mother," begins Gladys Case's "first letter home," postmarked from the Hudson Girls' Training School three days after Christmas, December 28, 1930.
Read MoreBearing Witness
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In May of 2011, a box of documents from the New York State Training School for Girls was discovered by Lisa Durfee at a garage sale in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreUnderstanding and Preserving a Community's Heritage
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An excerpt from our oral history with the late Timothy Dunleavy, former owner of the Hudson business Rural Residence and co-founder of Historic Hudson.
Read More"They Are All Ellas..."
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Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald kept secret the cruelest chapter of her own history: her confinement for over a year in a reformatory as an orphaned teenager.
Read MoreClosure of the Girls' Training School
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In the few months before its closing in 1975, Hudson, NY residents, Training School employees, and elected officials waged a campaign to stop the closure.
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