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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 name Troy (after the legendary city of Troy, made famous in Homer's Iliad) was adopted in 1789, and the region was formed into the Town of Troy in 1791 from part of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck. The township included Brunswick and Grafton. Troy became a village in 1801 and was chartered as a city in 1816.
History. [edit] 1500 to 1700: the Mohican and the Skiwia Native Americans. [edit] Main article: History of Troy, New York. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Mohican Indians had a number of settlements along the Hudson River near its confluence with the Mohawk River.
History of Troy, New York. Troy, the seat of Rensselaer County, is a city on the east bank of the Hudson River. It is at the head of navigation on the Hudson and is also the northernmost point reached by Henry Hudson on his voyage of discovery in 1609.
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. The village was formally incorporated by an act of the ...
Troy, city, seat (1793) of Rensselaer county, eastern New York, U.S. It lies on the east bank of the Hudson River, opposite Watervliet and the junction of the Hudson with the Mohawk River and the New York State Canal System. With Albany and Schenectady, it forms an urban-industrial complex.
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.
