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History · Troy

Troy’s post office opened in 1882, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1964 on and the census since 1890.

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Quick answers

How Troy began

When was Troy founded?

1882

The Troy post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 311 in 18902020 census: 83144 years
Founding year: the first Troy post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Troy’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Troy are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Troy’s homes were built before 1959.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Troy’s history is told.

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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Troy came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Troy.

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The Long Cane Massacre Site and Lower Long Cane Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Troy, decade by decade

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On the map

Troy on the map, 1964 to 1986

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Troy. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Troy on the 1964 USGS mapTroy on the 1986 USGS map1964Mc Cormick sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Troy.

People over time

Troy, census by census

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Between 83 and 315 people in every census since 1890.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Troy’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about Troy’s history

What year was Troy founded?

The Troy post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

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 →

From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.