{"id":1308,"date":"2017-12-15T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:15:07","slug":"troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/troy\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Gregg and an unknown Mr. Moore were the first Americans to settle what would become Troy in 1803. The city of Troy was laid out and platted by James Riggin and David Hendershott in 1819, with Riggin giving the town its name.((W. T. Norton, ed.,<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idaillinois.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/edpl\/id\/11892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois, and Its People, 1812 to 1912<\/a>. <\/em>(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 556 &#8211; 557.)) Troy was officially incorporated on February 18, 1857.((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/our150years1812100flag#page\/60\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our 150 Years, 1812-1962<\/a><\/em>. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.))\u00a0By 1880, Troy had a population of 648 people.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1883\/dec\/vol-01-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883), 139.)) As of the 2010 census, the city of Troy has a population of 9,888.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 152.))<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Troy.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Troy.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troy in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the\u00a0city of Troy&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyil.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Gregg and an unknown Mr. Moore were the first Americans to settle what would become Troy in 1803. The city of Troy was laid out and platted by James Riggin and David Hendershott in 1819, with Riggin giving the town its name.((W. T. Norton, ed.,\u00a0Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois, and Its People, 1812 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[54,56],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}