Downtown Troy Historic District

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Troy is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, Troy had a population of 12,686. Troy is an exurb of St. Louis and part of the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area. Troy was platted in 1819. Local historian Mrs. Guinn claimed the community was named after Troy, New York, while late-19th-century scholar Andy Brown believed the name came from Troy, Vermont. An early variant name was Woods Fort. A post office called Troy has been in operation since 1823. Fort Cap au Gris, a War of 1812 fortification, was built near Troy in 1814. Mercy Hospital Lincoln was established in Troy in 1953 under the Hill-Burton Memorial Hospitals Act, as Lincoln County Memorial Hospital. Cuivre River State Park, one of the largest of Missouri's state parks, is about three miles northeast of Troy, across the Cuivre River valley. The Downtown Troy Historic District is a national historic district in Troy. The district encompasses 39 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures in the central business district and surrounding residential area. It developed between about 1832 and 1966, and includes representative examples of Late Victorian style architecture. Notable buildings include the Sherman Cottle House (1832), St. Stephens Methodist Church (1900–1901), Lincoln County Jail/Jailer's House (1876), Sacred Heart Catholic Church (1954), Lincoln County Courthouse (1869–1870), Troy Post Office (c. 1925), Farmers & Merchants Bank / Masonic Lodge (1906), Universalist Church / Masonic Hall (1837/1851), Lincoln County Motor Co. (1929), and United Baptist Church (1937). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 2013. Troy is two miles west of the Cuivre River. U.S. 61 passes east of the city and Missouri Route 47 passes through the north side. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 7.34 square miles (19.01 km2), of which 7.30 square miles (18.91 km2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. As of the 2020 census, Troy had a population of 12,686. The median age was 34.6 years. 27.1% of residents were under the age of 18 and 13.7% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 95.2 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 93.0 males age 18 and over. 97.8% of residents lived in urban areas, while 2.2% lived in rural areas. There were 4,633 households in Troy, of which 38.3% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 47.7% were married-couple households, 16.3% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 26.9% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

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