How the Collar City got its name
We now believe that Mrs. Hannah Montague of 139 Third Street, Troy, invented the concept of the detachable collar in 1827, snipping the collar from one of her husband’s shirts […]
We now believe that Mrs. Hannah Montague of 139 Third Street, Troy, invented the concept of the detachable collar in 1827, snipping the collar from one of her husband’s shirts […]
Here is another view of Troy, taken from the photographic room windows (presumably within the main building of the short-lived Troy University, though perhaps in another building) by the Rev. […]
It’s likely no one from Troy would recognize this as a picture of their fair city, but this picture shows a prominent feature of the landscape for more than 100 […]
As I mentioned not too long ago, Troy did once have a magnificent City Hall. It was located at the corner of Third and State, where Barker Park is today, […]
This brilliant ghost sign from Pressman’s Army & Navy Store on Third Street in Troy was visible for many years from the parking lot for Troy Savings Bank. Unfortunately, recent […]
From Arthur Weise’s “The City of Troy and Its Vicinity,” 1886, comes this description of a long-forgotten factory that once employed thousands, the Earl & Wilson Company: “The senior member […]
There’s no point in re-inventing the wheel: Don Rittner has already told the whole story of how the most famous Christmas poem ever, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” was first […]
I’m always delighted when I find that some great old building that’s in the Historic American Buildings Survey still exists on our city streets, so when I ran across this […]
… there’s work. The furnaces of the Burden Iron Company, Troy, 1886.
I suspect that, armed with a little bit of information, one could find bits of Troy’s manufacturing history in every state of the union. Here from the Library of Congress […]