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Rensselaer County / r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər / ren-sə-LEER is a county in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 161,130. [2] Its county seat is Troy. [3] The county is named in honor of the family of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the original Dutch owner of the land in the area.
Troy, New York: William H. Young. OCLC 17346272. (Full text via Google Books.) Weise, Arthur James (1876). History of the city of Troy: from the Expulsion of the Mohegan Indians to the Present Centennial Year of Independence of the United States of America, 1876. Troy, New York: William H. Young. OCLC 12930415. Esposito, Michael A. (2009).
The Central Troy Historic District is an irregularly shaped, 96-acre (39 ha) area of downtown Troy, New York, United States. It has been described as "one of the most perfectly preserved 19th-century downtowns in the [country]" [ 3 ] with nearly 700 properties in a variety of architectural styles from the early 19th to mid-20th centuries.
At least fourteen members of the United States House of Representatives (all from New York) are buried there, including E. Harold Cluett, [43] John Paine Cushman, [44] John Dean Dickinson, [45] William Henry Draper, [46] Edward Whitford Greenman, [47] Job Pierson, [48] Russell Sage, [49] Dean Park Taylor, [50] John Richardson Thurman, [51 ...
The former Troy Record Building on Broadway. The Record (also known as The Troy Record) is a broadsheet daily newspaper once published in Troy, New York. The paper has been published regularly since 1896. [2] It covers all of New York's Capital Region and specifically the city of Troy.
The Bronx County Courthouse, also known as the Mario Merola Building, is an historic courthouse building located in the Concourse and Melrose neighborhoods of the Bronx in New York City. It was designed in 1931 and built between 1931 and 1934. It is a nine-story limestone building on a rusticated granite base in the Art Deco style.
Brunswick is a town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States.The municipality was originally settled in the early 18th century. During its history, it had been part of Albany County, Rensselaerswyck, and Troy, before its incorporation in 1807.
Troy's first post office was established in 1796, within a decade of the city's founding, in a local law office on First Street. Over the next century it was housed in seven other downtown locations, the last two being for long periods, in the Atheneum Building on First Street (1846-1882) and the Masonic Temple on Third (1882-1894).