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Hudson-Athens Ferry BACK on the Hudson. We traveled from Hudson to Athens and returned to Hudson on the maiden voyage of the Hudson-Athens ferry Friday night. This was fun. We got to meet a recently married couple from Brooklyn and were re-introduced to Debbie Woodward and her Dad, Joseph. Joseph, now 77 years old, told some great stories of the ferry service that linked Columbia and Greene counties. Here's Claude Haton's tory, published earlier this week in the Daily Mail: Published: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:08 AM EDT ATHENS — After more than 60 years in drydock, a version of the Hudson-Athens Ferry will be back in business this summer, thanks to Captain Guy Falkenheimer and the Hudson Cruises line. Beginning June 15, the ferry service will begin operating between the Athens Riverside Park and the Hudson city dock evenings between 5 and 10 p.m. The schedule is based on the old ferry service schedule, Falkenheimer said, which operated in one form or another from the early 1800s to the mid 1940s when the newly constructed Rip Van Winkle Bridge, completed in 1935, finally drove it out of business. A ribbon cutting recently celebrated the revival of the ferry service, with members of the Greene and Columbia County Tourism Departments, Falkenheimer, Athens Mayor Andrea Smallwood, Legislator Chris Pfister, and other invited guests in attendanc The new ferry, servicing foot traffic only, will link the two towns and allow visitors to frequent eateries and watering holes on both sides of the river. It will operate until August 15th. The $10 round trip fee offers an inexpensive boat ride at the very least, Falkenheimer noted. The trip takes about 20 minutes to complete, station to station. Back in 2005, the ferry service was briefly recreated, in a modern time setting, for the feature film War of the Worlds produced by Stephen Speilberg and starring Tom Cruise. A little ferry history According to then History of Athens website, a type of ferry service was established in 1778 by Conrad Flaack to help people cross the river. He used one canoe as a boat for passengers and two boats with a platform placed across them across to accomodate carriages. Oddly, horses were required to swim along behind the boats as their owners, sitting in the stem, held their reins. In 1806, a man named Timothy Bunker took over the Ferry. The year 1816 saw the first nine-horse ferry. Back then, Athens actually supported three different ferry services, which apparently operated simultaneously until 1824. At that time they replaced the vessels with six-horse team ferries, which operated into the 1830s. The horse-powered boat was then replaced by a steam propelled ferry, but the boat proved inadequate to the task, and was replaced again by another horse-powered ferry. But steam finally took hold. The John T. Waterman was a steam-engined sidewheel boat, built in Athens, which served from 1858-1869. Then came the George H. Powers, also built in Athens, which plied the waters from 1869-1921. The Hudson-Athens ferry, a steel-hulled boat, with a diesel engine served from 1921-1938. The Pelican came next and was later named the "City of Hopewell." Its first run started on December 1938 and ran until the ferry service closed for good in 1947.