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The history of Troy, New York extends back to the Mohican Indians. Troy is a city on the east bank of the Hudson River about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Albany in the US State of New York.
The first detachable shirt collar was "invented" by Hanna Montague in 1827, when she cut off the collars of her husband's shirts in order to ease the load of laundering them. Her husband began a company to manufacture them and Troy became known as "Collar City."
Troy was formed as a town, from Rensselaerwyck, March 18, 1791. Brunswick and parts of Grafton and Lansingburgh were taken off March 20, 1807, and a part of Greenbush in 1836. A part of Brunswick was annexed in 1814. The first village charter was passed in 1791, and another one in 1798.
In 1791, Troy was incorporated as a town and extended east across the county to the Vermont line and included Petersburgh. In 1796 Troy became a village and in 1816 it became a city. Lansingburgh, to the north, became part of Troy in 1900. Troy is known as the Collar City due to its history in shirt, collar, and other textile production.
Troy Genealogy (in Rensselaer County, NY) USA (1,379,301) > New York (69,866) > Rensselaer County (1,792) > Troy (614) NOTE: Additional records that apply to Troy are also found through the Rensselaer County and New York pages. Birth Records. Land Records.
History of the city of Troy, from the expulsion of the Mohegan Indians to the present centennial year of the independence of the United States of America, 1876. Names Weise, Arthur James, 1838-1921.
12 lip 2013 · The detachable shirt collar was invented in Troy in 1827 by a local housewife, Hannah Montague. For more than a hundred years, various styles of the stiff cotton collars were worn by merchants, businessmen and other "white collar" workers. Troy produced over 90% of the collars worn in America.
