Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Nester House. Below: maps from 1961 on and the census since 1860.
Troy dates its founding to 1815 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1860.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Troy’s history is told.
Peaked at 599 in 1900; 347 people lived here in 2020.
17 censuses, 1860–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Troy’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereSusan Louise Marsh is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Troy.
Troy was laid out in 1815. Troy was an early county seat of Perry County. A post office has been in operation at Troy since 1818.
Future president Abraham Lincoln worked the ferry across the Ohio River at Troy with his father in his youth.
The Nester House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Troy, cut from the printed page as they were published.
viduals. The deed w^as as follows : ' ' Kjiow all men by these presents : That we Isaac Fuller, George Farrar, Daniel W. Farrar, Daniel Cutting and David White of Troy, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, in consideration of the sum of twenty dollars paid by the said town of Troy, the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, have remised, released, and forever quitclaimed, and do by
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president and Hugh Peebles cashier. Another meeting was held June 29. at Jacob’s tavern in Lansingburgh, at which meeting it was resolved that “in case the lot for the temporary place of the establishment of the bank shall fall to the village of Troy, that we will point out to the com¬ missioners the house of Joshua Raymond in the village of Troy as the house contemplated in the act, and in case it should fall to the village of Lansingburgh, we will immediately cause a temporary building to be erected on the middle ground at or near the place contemplated by the
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Troy Savings Bank — The Troy Savings Bank is the oldest existing banking institution in the city of Troy and the county of Rensselaer in continuous existence under the same name. An act of the Legislature incorporating the bank was passed April 23, 1823, and at a meeting of the board of managers held at Platt Titus’ Inn (later the Troy House), August 1, 1823, Townsend McCoun was elected president. The by-laws provided that the bank should be open every Saturday evening from six to eight o’clock ; that deposits of one dollar and of larger amounts be
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Fitzwilliam, Swanzey and Richmond for the support of schools shall be divided between the remaining towns of Marlboro' Fitzwilliam, Swanzey and Richmond and the several parts of the town of Troy disannexed from said towns according to their present proportion of the public taxes, and the lands which the said towns of Marlboro' and Fitzwilliam now have for the support of schools shall be divided between the remaining parts of Marlboro' and
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Troy.
1961Tell City sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Troy.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1815, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Troy’s post office opened in 1818, and the census of 1860 counted 363 people here.
One place: the Nester House (listed 1990).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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