Troy is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Saratoga Township,
Winona County,
Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...
, United States.
Geography
The small community is located near the junction of
State Highway 74 and Winona County Road 6. Trout Run Creek flows through it. Nearby places include
St. Charles,
Saratoga,
Clyde, and
Chatfield.
History
Troy had a post office from 1858 to 1905. The community was named after
Troy, New York
Troy is a city in and the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York, United States. It is located on the western edge of the county, on the eastern bank of the Hudson River just northeast of the capital city of Albany, New York, Albany. At the ...
.
The village was the initial home of Evergreen Masonic Lodge # 46. The lodge was chartered in 1864. It shared space with a local chapter of the Grange. In 1898 the lodge moved five miles to the east, to Clyde.
References
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Winona County, Minnesota
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