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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.
Troy City Hall • Body: Troy City Council • Mayor: ... Climate data for Troy, New York (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1932–2018) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr
Hall was educated at Harvard University and served as City Clerk of Troy. The building may have been an inspiration for New York City's Flatiron Building . [ 8 ] Hall wrote A Collection of College Works and Customs (ca. 1850), History of Eastern Vermont, from its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1858), and ...
The Meneely Bell Foundry was a bell foundry established in 1826 in West Troy (now Watervliet), New York, by Andrew Meneely. [ citation needed ] Two of Andrew's sons continued to operate the foundry after his death, while a third son, Clinton H. Meneely, opened a second foundry across the river with George H. Kimberly in Troy, New York in 1870.
The Rensselaer County Historical Society (RCHS) is a non-profit, historical society and museum, to promote the study of the history of the Rensselaer County, NY.RCHS was founded in 1927, and originally operated out of a single room in the Troy Public Library, collecting manuscripts and published materials related to the county's history.
The name was changed to Vanderheyden Hall in 1942, and today the organization is known as simply "Vanderheyden." [1] Across the river in Watervliet, the Fairview Home for Friendless Children was founded in 1888 by James Barclay Jermain, a lawyer and local philanthropist. In 1956, the Fairview Home merged with the Troy Orphan Asylum. Services ...
New York: A Guide to the Empire State. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 1-60354-031-8. Reynolds, Cuyler (1906). Albany Chronicles: A History of the City Arranged Chronologically. J. B. Lyon Company. Rittner, Don (2008). Remembering Troy. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-536-0. Rittner, Don (2002). Troy, NY: A Collar City History ...
In 1869, the City of Troy bought the property of the Third Street Burying Ground for the site of a new city hall. This was the burial site for many of Troy's earliest inhabitants; the city had bought lot number 102 in Section N for re-interment of 146 graves.