Many Trojans do not realize that the city of Troy was created from three Dutch farms, a couple of villages and hamlets, and a sort of no-man land called Batestown. In the 20th century the village of Lansingburgh was added and that included the village of Dort (now called Speigeltown, a hamlet that was added […]
A history of the Collar Laundry Union – the first female union in the United States – set up by Kate Mullany, Esther Keegan and others in Troy, New York in 1864.