19 comments

  1. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this history of Troy, AL

    1. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for letting me know.

  2. I loved read this my grandfather and grandmother lived there and there are children ,grandchildren and I have a lot of family there that is dead too. I would love to be able too share so I could copy it . thank you so much for the history.

    1. Looks like Norris may be your maiden name. Are you kin to the Toliver Norris family?

  3. I enjoyed reading the history of Troy/Pike. I am most interested in any pictures available of the Love tavern , Ann (Granny ) Love and her son Capt AP Love.

  4. Something interesting I noticed about the photo of the 1900 Troy Normal School faculty: many of the current buildings at Troy University bear the names of some of the teachers’ names that I can make out from the picture (Cowart, Pace, Gardner, McCartha, Shackleford, and Wright). I assume these are the ones the buildings were named for?

  5. really enjoyed this history of Troy
    Please add more pictures. 210 and 304 South Brundidge st. Thank you.

  6. Jennifer Nelson Gordon – I’m making sure you are offered the opportunity to read this;…in the highly doubtful case realm of your having missed these historical facts in your matriculation toward advanced learning and such? uk

  7. Thank you for sharing these interesting historical facts about Alabama, Betty. I am enjoying reading & learning.

  8. My ancestors (Lee, Coskrey, Evans, and Smith) settled and still farm this area. I love the sound of the wind whispering through the trees at night.

  9. Marie Boswell Davidson this site always has interesting Alabama history

  10. When was the Confederate Monument added to Troy, My GGG Grandfather is named on it along with some of his brothers and other relatives?

    1. The Confederate monument was unveiled on July 15, 1908

  11. Fascinating article. My Broadway ancestors were in Troy in 1850. Wm. A. and his wife, Susan, were listed apart from their children, who appeared to be with a Dr. I suspect the children may have had a communicable disease so had to be isolated.

  12. I enjoyed reading this! I’m actually a descendant of AP Love. I’m going to do more research on this topic, eventually I will visit Troy, Alabama.