The "Welcome to Troy" sign says that Troy is the "Gateway to Perry County" and is the "2nd Oldest Town in Indiana". I'm not sure which Indiana town is the oldest.Frank Baertich wrote a book entitled The History of Troy, Indiana, McDowell Pub. 1983. A web based history can be found here.
The Troy IN Post Office is located next to the Senior Center on one of the main cross streets. A postal worker was not sure about the origin of the town's name but did not think it had to do with the original Troy. The web based history claims that the name has classical origins.
A nice home located on a corner lot on the main street.
One of the town's churches located on the main highway through town.
Troy IN is located on the north bank of the Ohio River. This a view looking upriver (towards Louisville) and across towards Kentucky. The location is a small park on the bank of the river.At the age of 17, Abraham Lincoln built a small boat to take travelers out to midsteam near Troy to board passing paddlewheelers. A Kentucky boatman took young Lincoln to court for operating a ferry without a license. Abe argued that since his scow did not cross the river, it wasn't a ferry and did not need a license and the judge agreed. This may have been the start of Lincoln's legal career.
This a view looking downriver (towards Evansville). Just downriver is the town of Rockport where Abraham Lincoln read the law books of John Pitcher. The information on Abraham Lincoln and Troy IN was taken from the book River Horse by William Least Heat Moon.
