Troy, New York, USA
1906

Troy, a city and the capital of Rensselaer co., N.Y., is situated on the E. bank of the Hudson River, at the mouth of the Poestenkill River, at the head of steamboat navigation, 6 miles above Albany and 151 miles N. of New York, on the New York Central and Hudson River, the Delaware and Hudson and the Boston and Maine Rs. Lat. of observatory, 42° 43' 53" N. ; Lon. 73° 40' 35" W. On the opposite bank of the Hudson is Watervliet (West Troy). The site of the city is mainly an alluvial plain which extends along the river for several miles and is terminated on the E. side by a range of hills, of which Mount Ida is the most commanding summit. The city is laid out with great regularity. Troy contains a number of notable public buildings and various charitable and benevolent associations, and is the seat of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one of the best-equipped institutions of its kind in the country, and the Emma Willard Seminary, one of the oldest schools for the higher education of women, and various other academic and collegiate schools. A Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument stands on Washington Square. Troy is favorably situated for commerce, the distribution of its raw and manufactured materials being facilitated, apart from the railways, by the important water-ways that are furnished by the Hudson River, the Erie and the Champhun canals. The city ranks fifth among the industrial cities of the state, the manufactured product in 1900 having been valued at $28,209,000. It is a leading centre for the manufacture of shirts, collars, and cuffs (which gives employment to several thousand hands) and occupies an important place in the iron industry. It has manufactures of stores and general foundry products, laundry- and other machinery, railroad rolling-stock, paper, wood-pulp, optical and surveying instruments, brushes, paints, knitted goods, malted liquors, etc. Troy was incorporated as a city in 1816. Pop. in 1850, 28,785 ; in 1860, 39,235 ; in 1970, 46,421 ; in 1880, 56,747 ; in 1890, 60,956 : in 1900, 60,651.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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