History · Troy
Troy’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Troy yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
0 old photos & papers
1 historic places
What stands out about Troy’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Troy’s collection 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.
The story How Troy came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Troy.
Read it all → 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 .
By decade
Troy, decade by decade On the National Register 1 historic place in Troy The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1990
Nester House
in Indiana
#288
by listings
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
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History across the town line
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What used to stand where something else is now in Troy? → Who remembers Troy in the 1950s? → A family story from old Troy → Does anyone have photos of Troy from the 1990s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (1) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.