Troy, New York, USA
1895 - Troy

...The streets are generally well paved, lighted with gas and electricity, £f bordered £ The finest residences are situated on First, Second, and Fifth streets, and around Seminary and Washington Parks. Among the public buildings worthy of notice are the Troy savings-bank building, including a fine music-hall, and erected at a cost of $500,000, the Episcopal churches of the Holy Cross and St. Paul, both of blue limestone, St. John's, of brown sandstone, and the Troy Times building, of iron and glass. Troy contains 50 churches, a fine masonic temple, a high school, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Emma Willard Female Seminary (to which Hon. Russell Sage has recently presented a $100,000 building and the late Mr. G. W. S. Quackenbush a $50,000 structure), several academies, 8 national banks, a new city hall, a Catholic theological seminary, the Marshall Infirmary, the Troy Hospital, 2 orphan asylums, and a public library. Four daily and 6 weekly newspapers are published here. Two bridges cross the river here and connect Troy with West Troy, where the Watervliet Arsenal is located.

This city has important manufactures of iron, Bessemer steel, cotton goods, railroad-cars, stoves, machinery, boilers, bells, stone-ware, nails, axles, steam-engines, &c. It has blast-furnaces, iron- and brass-foundries, horseshoe- and nail-factories, rolling-mills, paper-mills, breweries, distilleries, flour-mills, carriage-factories, about 40 shirt- and collar-factories, employing nearly 6000 hands, and a superior establishment for the manufacture of mathematical instruments. Troy is favorably situated for commerce, being near a terminus of the Champlain and Erie Canals. It is traversed by electric railways, and connected by similar railroads with Lansingburg, Waterford, and Cohoes. Steamboats ply daily between Troy and New York and Troy and Albany, except in winter. Its trade is also facilitated by several important steam railroads. A portion of the 5th ward of this city is sometimes called Albia, where is a manufactory of hosiery. Troy was incorporated as a city in 1816. Pop. in 1850, 28,785; in 1860, 39,235; in 1870, 46,421; in 1880, 56,747; in 1890, 60,956.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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