As someone under the spell of history, just think about a land so recently settled that "new" towns were be created across the horizon. While the pioneer people lived tough lives, the excitement over settling a virgin section of land, and then building and naming the town must have been incredibly exhilarating.
In my lifetime, the only "new" town I can think of is Seaside, Florida, which of course doesn't really count since it is a resort area. But still, it does have its own zip code and for all practical purposes is "new" town created from scratch.
Seaside is an interesting story as it started the new form of "urban planning" or town layouts that we now see all across the country - for example, at The Waters in Pike Road.
You may not be aware Bill, but during my 13 years of married life (1997-2000) I lived and worked along 30A in the shadow of Seaside and the many "towns" that followed. My daughter, Bo Massey, now owns and runs the business that my ex-wife and I started, which was named for her. https://www.bohlertmassey.com/. I have many interesting stories from those days...
Greetings from another Troy -- this one from Ohio. Our history showed that the early settlers ended up enjoying reading Greek mythology and the name Troy just stuck. Fun fact, the town was platted in the early 1810s by a name by the man of Andrew Wallace, his son David would go on to be governor of our next door neighbor, Indiana.
Thanks, William - another Trojan. I need to find out how many "Troy's" there are in America. It's a great name for a town. Whoever named our town here in SE Alabama made a great choice.
Great info! This anecdote shows the importance of the Reader Comment section. You learn a lot more interesting stuff by reading the Reader Comments.
P.S. I actually think I did try to research this one time as well. I don't remember that many "Troy's" but maybe your sixth grade "crowd-sourced" research project was more accurate.
I was just enjoying my early coffee on the back porch when I saw a Momma deer and two of her baby deer trot across the Webb's front yard next door. I see deer every day in my backyard and Connie and Duanne's sizeable and beautiful side and front yards. This made me think that Troy was once known as "Deer Stand Hill" because so many deer enjoyed grazing on the hill that became the town Square. The town square, as the crow flies, is only a mile or so from my house. So Troy had a huge population of deer in this area 200 years ago ... and still does today!
As someone under the spell of history, just think about a land so recently settled that "new" towns were be created across the horizon. While the pioneer people lived tough lives, the excitement over settling a virgin section of land, and then building and naming the town must have been incredibly exhilarating.
In my lifetime, the only "new" town I can think of is Seaside, Florida, which of course doesn't really count since it is a resort area. But still, it does have its own zip code and for all practical purposes is "new" town created from scratch.
Seaside is an interesting story as it started the new form of "urban planning" or town layouts that we now see all across the country - for example, at The Waters in Pike Road.
You may not be aware Bill, but during my 13 years of married life (1997-2000) I lived and worked along 30A in the shadow of Seaside and the many "towns" that followed. My daughter, Bo Massey, now owns and runs the business that my ex-wife and I started, which was named for her. https://www.bohlertmassey.com/. I have many interesting stories from those days...
Greetings from another Troy -- this one from Ohio. Our history showed that the early settlers ended up enjoying reading Greek mythology and the name Troy just stuck. Fun fact, the town was platted in the early 1810s by a name by the man of Andrew Wallace, his son David would go on to be governor of our next door neighbor, Indiana.
Thanks, William - another Trojan. I need to find out how many "Troy's" there are in America. It's a great name for a town. Whoever named our town here in SE Alabama made a great choice.
I remember back in sixth grade, our class tried to answer this question and I want to say we found 26.
Great info! This anecdote shows the importance of the Reader Comment section. You learn a lot more interesting stuff by reading the Reader Comments.
P.S. I actually think I did try to research this one time as well. I don't remember that many "Troy's" but maybe your sixth grade "crowd-sourced" research project was more accurate.
I was just enjoying my early coffee on the back porch when I saw a Momma deer and two of her baby deer trot across the Webb's front yard next door. I see deer every day in my backyard and Connie and Duanne's sizeable and beautiful side and front yards. This made me think that Troy was once known as "Deer Stand Hill" because so many deer enjoyed grazing on the hill that became the town Square. The town square, as the crow flies, is only a mile or so from my house. So Troy had a huge population of deer in this area 200 years ago ... and still does today!
I like this one.