Troy, Ohio: History and Highlights

October 27, 20261 min readBy PinGallery
Troy, Ohio
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Troy is a city in and the county seat of Miami County, Ohio, United States. The population was 26,305 at the 2020 census, making it Miami County’s largest city and Ohio’s 55th largest. Troy lies along the Great Miami River about 19 miles (31 km) north of Dayton and is part of the Dayton metropolitan area.

At a Glance

History of Troy

In 1970, the Troy Historical Society published Troy: The Nineteenth Century, a book on Troy’s history by Thomas Bemis Wheeler. The book discusses the city’s founding city and the Ohio canal era of the 1800s.

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Troy, Ohio, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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