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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.
Smith was born on January 6, 1812, in Rome, New York, the fifth of eight children of Anthony Smith (1778–1853), a farmer, and Paulina Preston (1781–1845). [6] [7] [8] In 1816, the family moved to Whiting, Vermont. [8] Smith's older brother, Sidney, was a partner in a dry-goods company in Troy, New York, and hired Smith as a clerk in 1835. [8]
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).
In 1800, the Benevolent Society of Troy to Assist Indigent Women and Children was founded in Troy, New York. The Society opened the Troy Orphan Asylum in 1833. 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 ...
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 Hart-Cluett Mansion is located at 57 Second Street in Troy, New York, United States.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is a contributing property to the Central Troy Historic District created in 1986.
Albany: University of the State of New York. The Van Rensselaers in Holland and in America. {}: |first= has generic name ; Venema, Janny (2003). Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652–1664. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-6080-0. Weise, Arthur James (1886).
The next year, 1840, he and a friend visited family in Galena, Illinois, before returning to New York. [4] It is believed that Melville wrote his first two novels while living in this home. [5] The Melville family's former home is today preserved and maintained by the Lansingburgh Historical Society. [6]