And other UA & AU greats from Pike County + photos and text about Dr. O. N. Edge and his famous house … AISA’s Troy Triple header and Joe Vann’s Texaco Station.
I think the edge house caught on fire two different times, i remember standing in the yard of the edge house watching the firefighters fight the fire one time
This is an amazing statistic/anecdote to me. (I pulled this number - 219 - from my Dad's history book on Troy):
"The patriarch of the Colley family of medical practitioners (future doctors, nurses and veterinarians) moved to Troy in1923 when the Alabama Baptist Children’s Home moved to Troy from Evergreen —in one day (!), increasing the town’s population by 219 children - plus administrators and staffers.
James O Colley, the family patriarch, was the Children Home’s first Troy superintendent.
As Dad wrote elsewhere, Troy's permanent population growing by at least 219 citizens (more if you count Mr. Colley's family and other staffers who moved from Evergreen) had to be at least 230 - which was the all-time largest one-day jump in Troy's population in one day!
I think the edge house caught on fire two different times, i remember standing in the yard of the edge house watching the firefighters fight the fire one time
Thanks, Curt. I did't know the house caught on fire TWO times. More research, on my part, is definitely needed.
Another good story would be the most memorable fires in Troy history.
This is an amazing statistic/anecdote to me. (I pulled this number - 219 - from my Dad's history book on Troy):
"The patriarch of the Colley family of medical practitioners (future doctors, nurses and veterinarians) moved to Troy in1923 when the Alabama Baptist Children’s Home moved to Troy from Evergreen —in one day (!), increasing the town’s population by 219 children - plus administrators and staffers.
James O Colley, the family patriarch, was the Children Home’s first Troy superintendent.
As Dad wrote elsewhere, Troy's permanent population growing by at least 219 citizens (more if you count Mr. Colley's family and other staffers who moved from Evergreen) had to be at least 230 - which was the all-time largest one-day jump in Troy's population in one day!