Piscawen Kill News Today

Prior to his death in 1809, at age 50, Jacob D. Vanderheyden laid out a roughly rectangular area of lots beginning on the North side of present North Street, at that time the end of the village of Troy, and running north to around present day Smith Avenue. The West line ran to the Hudson […]

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 […]