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Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and is the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York. It is located on the western edge of that county on the eastern bank of the Hudson River just northeast of the capital city of Albany.
Rensselaer County / r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər / ren-sə-LEER is a county in the U.S. state of New York.As of the 2020 census, the population was 161,130. [2] Its county seat is Troy. [3] The county is named in honor of the family of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the original Dutch owner of the land in the area.
Rensselaer County sits east of the Hudson River in New York's Capital District and borders both Massachusetts and Vermont on the east. The area was originally inhabited by the Mohican Indian tribe until it was bought by the Dutch jeweler and merchant Kiliaen van Rensselaer in 1630 and incorporated into his patroonship Rensselaerswyck (which, in ...
The land on which Troy now sits was purchased by the wealthy Dutch jeweler and one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company, Kiliaen van Rensselaer (namesake of Rensselaer County). [15] The land was deeded over several transactions in the 1630s and became the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck , [ 10 ] a feudal colonial government that ...
The Central Troy Historic District is an irregularly shaped, 96-acre (39 ha) area of downtown Troy, New York, United States.It has been described as "one of the most perfectly preserved 19th-century downtowns in the [country]" [3] with nearly 700 properties in a variety of architectural styles from the early 19th to mid-20th centuries.
The entrance of Joseph L. Bruno Stadium. The Joseph L. Bruno Stadium is a stadium located on the campus of Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York.It is the home field of the Tri-City ValleyCats minor league baseball team of the independent Frontier League and previously the New York–Penn League. [6]
Brunswick (Brittonkill) Central School District (BCSD) is a rural fringe [3] central school district located east of the city of Troy whose main campus resides in the town of Brunswick in Rensselaer County, New York, United States.
Troy High School is a public high school located in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, U.S.A., and is the only high school operated by the Enlarged City School District of Troy, NY. The Troy Flying Horses football team are 4 time, one time NYS Class A (1996) and three time NYS Class AA State Champions, [ 5 ] first in 1998 then back to back for ...