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History · North Troy

North Troy’s post office opened in 1829, and 41% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: 12 old photos and papers, maps from 1887 on, and the census since 1880.

1829first post office

1on the National Register

41%homes built before 1940

12old photos & papers

1famous people

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From North Troy’s archive · credits on each photo

Quick answers

How North Troy began

When was North Troy founded?

1829

The North Troy post office opened in 1829, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 469 in 18802020 census: 631197 years

Founding year: the first North Troy post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about North Troy’s past

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

Boom and bustPeaked at 1,077 in 1940; 631 people lived here in 2020.Mapped building by building5 fire insurance maps, 1887 to 1919, drew every building in North Troy.A town in old photos12 old photos, postcards and papers, 1909–1936.Deep rootsA post office since 1829: 197 years of North Troy.

★ What stands out · People over time

North Troy, census by census

Peaked at 1,077 in 1940; 631 people lived here in 2020.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Every building

North Troy, building by building, 1887–1919

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

North Troy fire insurance map, 1887, sheet 1

1887Sheet 1 of 1

Edition

Sheets

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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

By decade

North Troy, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1900s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1900s5 items

1909River scene, N. Troy, VT

1909Village of N. Troy, VT

1909Green Mts. near N. Troy, VT

1909N. Troy, VT from east side

1909The "Owl's Head," near N. Troy, VT

1930s7 items

1930North Troy, VT

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Vermont farmer and sheep near North Troy

1936Untitled photo, possibly related to: Vermont farmer a…

1940s–1990snothing yet

Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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The story

How North Troy came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of North Troy.

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There were Winter Carnivals from 1940 to 1942. In 1942, 4,000 people attended. There were dog sled races and ski jumping contests.

Until 2007, the village was unique for depending neither on the town constable nor the county sheriff for law enforcement but had a police force of its own. While it was not village policy to have fines as a money maker, the department did break even. It earned $39,070.12 in fines and other revenue in 2006.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

From the old history books

What they wrote about North Troy in 1882

Passages that mention North Troy, cut from the printed page as they were published.

gregational society erected a house for public worship at South Troy, and in 1864 a house was built by the Congregational society at North Troy. The Methodists, as has already been related, at an early day introduced their doctrines and organization into this valley and have always had a preacher s… — **The history of Orleans county, Vermont. Civil, ecclesiastical, biographical and military**1882 · page 330Read the page →
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gregational society erected a house for public worship at South Troy, and in 1864 a house was built by the Congregational society at North Troy. The Methodists, as has already been related, at an early day introduced their doctrines and organization into this valley and have always had a preacher stationed on this circuit. Al-
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.

Timeline

North Troy, 1908 to 1978

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

20th century
1908Born hereHarvey Butterfield is born here
1909In the archiveRiver scene, N. Troy, VT
1930In the archiveNorth Troy, VT
1940CensusPopulation peaks at 1,077
1978On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey

On the map

North Troy on the map in 1978

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of North Troy.

1978North Troy Station sheet · 1:25,000

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

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Retake this viewRiver scene, N. Troy, VT, 1909

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on North Troy’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in North Troy

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed

National Historic Landmarks

none yet

historic buildings protected

each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

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Finish North Troy’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos

00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s

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

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Questions about North Troy’s history

What year was North Troy founded?

The North Troy post office opened in 1829, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 (1), the Library of Congress (11), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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