Editing Troy, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Ohio - Troy - NARA - 68147002 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Troy in the 1920s]]
Troy was [[plat]]ted around 1807.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=150|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=134}}</ref> A post office in Troy has been in operation since 1824.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=OH | title=Post offices | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref>

Troy was one of the cities affected by severe flooding in the [[Great Flood of 1913]].<ref name=flood>{{cite web| url=http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/21/ddn032208lifefloodplus.html| title=Flood of 1913 remains Ohio's greatest| access-date=2008-04-01| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522020900/http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/21/ddn032208lifefloodplus.html| archive-date=2011-05-22}}</ref>

In 1970, the Troy Historical Society published ''Troy: The Nineteenth Century'', a book on Troy's history by Thomas Bemis Wheeler. The book discusses the city's founding city and the Ohio canal era of the 1800s.