Editing Troy, Montana (section)

=== Post American settlement ===
Throughout 1892, Troy was filed as a town in then-Missoula County and grew rapidly as the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]] chose a nearby site as a "division yard", or freight terminal,<ref name=":0" /> which was first renamed "West Troy" before just becoming Troy itself as the Lake City area was abandoned.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5280674.pdf|title=SOURCE OF LOCAL LANDMARK NAMES for the Bull Lake Valley, Yaak River Valley and the Troy, Montana Area|publisher=Three Rivers Ranger District|year=2002|editor-last=Calvi|editor-first=Jim|location=Kootenai National Forest}}</ref> The town's first hotel, then called the Windsor Hotel, was built. One transplant described the town as such: "Fifteen saloons gaily lit filled to the doors with “wild men and wild women” yelling, singing, dancing, and cursing, with glasses held high, such was Troy. Two large [[dance hall]]s were in evidence, one grocery store run by John Bowen, several 'beaneries' (called restaurants by some), one drug store owned by 'Doc' Sailey and many shacks and tents where the 'wild women' congregated. Fights and ribaldry were the order of the days and nights."<ref name=":0" /> Another grocery store followed in 1893, the first one-room schoolhouse was built in 1894, and more mining companies, land claims, and support services such as ferries sprung up as gold was discovered on the [[Yaak River]] in 1895.<ref name=":0" />

The 1910s brought change. After the Windsor Hotel had been destroyed by fire in 1906 and rebuilt in 1907, wildfires during the summer of 1910 narrowly missed Troy by a few miles but raged throughout the area, causing lasting damage to the newly-protected [[Kootenai National Forest]]. In 1912, Troy's first bridge across the Kootenai River was built, along with bridges in [[Libby, Montana|Libby]] and [[Rexford, Montana|Rexford]], after a county vote. Previously, crossings were made on horseback – dangerous – or via [[Ferry|ferries]], which had started operating in 1892. Phone service reached the area in 1913. [[U.S. Route 2]] was proposed and a volunteer fire department was created. The [[1918 flu]] closed the local mill and schools temporarily.<ref name=":0" /> By 1920, there was a Chinese restaurant, a church, and an electric plant in town, and [[World War I]] increased the town's mining activity; the rapid expansion and labor conditions sometimes led to strikes and labor conflicts.<ref name=":5" />

[[File:Ali's Show, Hot Club, Troy, Montana.jpg|alt=coffeehouse-like concert at place with many guitars on wall|thumb|A show at the Hot Club, which stands on the site of the former Windsor Hotel]]

The town's population reached 1000 residents in 1924, and the same year, the town's Lincoln Theatre opened. The population peaked around 1926,<ref name=":0" /> but in March of that year, the Great Northern Railway moved its freight terminal elsewhere, leaving "only three supervisors and [a] small force of Japanese [workers]."<ref name=":5" /> Fires destroyed a concentrator in 1927 and a sawmill in 1928, with neither rebuilt, and the region's mines decreased in activity.<ref name=":5" />

The population dropped to as low as 428 during 1930 in the [[Great Depression]].<ref name=":0" /> Still, the Lincoln Theatre began playing [[Sound film|talking movies]] and the Windsor Hotel was renamed to the Great Northern Hotel, which stood until it burned down (for the second time) in 1941. A coffee house and cable shop operate on its former location. The Lincoln Theatre was remodeled in 1994.<ref name=":0" />

In 2006, the [[Troy Jail]] and the [[Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge]] were added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asset Detail|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=a136632b-c0b7-4daf-b931-b4e088912b90|access-date=December 12, 2020|website=npgallery.nps.gov}}</ref><ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite web|author=Historical Research Associates|date=1982|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge / Troy Bridge|url={{NRHP url|id=06001178}}|access-date=August 8, 2017|publisher=[[National Park Service]]}} With {{NRHP url|id=06001178|photos=y|title=seven photos from 2005}}.</ref>

[[File:Troy Montana (7910697806).jpg|alt=one story whitewashed concrete jail on a road. it has the words "troy jail" painted in block letters above the rectangular door|thumb|The [[Troy Jail]]]]