Editing Troy, Kansas (section)

==History==
Troy is part of the [[St. Joseph, Missouri|St. Joseph]], [[Missouri|MO]]&ndash;KS [[St. Joseph, Missouri Metropolitan Area|Metropolitan Statistical Area]].
Troy was [[plat]]ted in 1855.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5t09AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA479|year=1883|publisher=A. T. Andreas|page=479}}</ref> It was named after the ancient city of [[Troy]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA177 | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=177}}</ref> The first house in Troy was built in 1856, and the first store opened in 1857. Troy was incorporated as a city in 1860.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qi9cXyTWt9EC&pg=PA821 | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=821}}</ref> The first post office in Troy was established in March, 1857.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:DP |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=8 June 2014 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009130242/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:DP |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>

Troy grew up from humble beginnings along the wagon route from [[St. Joseph, Missouri]] to [[Oregon]] and [[California]].  British explorer [[Richard Francis Burton]] en route to California in 1860 noted: "Passing through a few wretched shanties called Troy ..."<ref>Richard Burton, (1862) ''The Look of the West 1860'', Lincoln: Univ. Nebraska Press, reprint, n.d., p.23.</ref>