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TROY, TEXAS (Bell County). Troy, also called New Troy,
is on Interstate Highway 35 and the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad, seven miles north of Temple in
northeastern Bell County. It grew up around the railway
station after 1882 and supplanted an earlier community
named Troy that was two miles north on Elm Creek.
Some occupants of Old Troy refused to move to the
new community site, and Old and New Troy coexisted
for some time. By 1884 New Troy had 250 inhabitants
and a post office, two churches, a gin and mill, three
saloons, a hotel, and a cooperative association. In 1886
the town was struck by a cyclone that destroyed a
store. The Troy Enterprise, a weekly newspaper, was
founded about 1892. The population was estimated at
500 in 1900, and the Troy school was the largest district
school in the county in 1903, when it had 171 pupils and
four teachers. Troy continued to prosper as a shipping
point for cotton, livestock, and the other agricultural
products of the region. In 1931 it had twenty businesses
and an estimated population of 450. The town declined
in the 1930s to 219 inhabitants, where it remained until
the 1960s. In 1964, when Troy incorporated, it had 275
residents, but it grew rapidly thereafter and had a
population of 450 in 1968, 704 in 1978, and 1,581 in
1988. In 1990 the population was 1,395. The population
dropped to 1,378 in 2000. |
