On April 27, 1860, a crowd assembled at the corner of State and First Streets at the Mutual Bank Building, later the National Bank Building. A young 28-year-old man, runaway slave, named Charles Nalle, reported as “light skinned and wore a beard,” and who had escaped from Virginia on October 19th, 1858, had been hoodwinked […]
Sadie G. Koninsky was an American composer, music publisher, and music teacher who lived most of her life in Troy. A prolific composer, she authored over 300 pieces of music including waltzes and marches. “Eli Green’s Cakewalk,” which became a popular hit when it appeared in 1898, was also the first cakewalk published by a […]
This story concerns a local Tannersville hotel owner and politician, Norman H. Gray. Gray was an 1849 Town of Hunter Justice and the Town Supervisor in 1845, 1855, 1863, and
Troy's Big Beaver corridor is known for its sparkling office buildings, luxury shopping and restaurants galore.
But what about two miles north?
At the northwest corner of Long Lake and Crooks roads, Bloomfield Hills-based developer Kojaian Management Corp. is mulling the fate of a little over…