Troy is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 census. Troy contains two villages: the unincorporated village of Troy, and the incorporated village of North Troy.

Government

Town

  • Moderator – Robert Starr
  • Selectboard Chairman – Robert Langlands
  • Town Clerk – Terri Medley
  • Treasurer – Terri Medley
  • Delinquent tax collector – Terri Medley
  • Lister – Eric McCann, Karen Rinner, Helene Croteau
  • Grand Juror – Robert Bishop
  • Road budget – $460,119

Robert Starr has been moderator for fifty years.

School District

Schools are operated by North Country Supervisory Union.

  • Board Member, North Country Union High School – Rosemary Mayhew
  • Director, School Board – Cliff Forster
  • Board members – Carol Currier, Richard Wells Jr., Gaston Bathalon, Andre Desautels
  • Principal – Chris Young
  • Budget – $2,975,840

Services

The town has two departments providing local services to residents:

  • Water Department – providing water to residents and businesses
  • Highway Department – maintaining local roads

There are two fire departments serving Troy:

  • Troy Volunteer Fire Department – 1 station, equipped with an engine, tanker, tower ladder and rescue truck
  • North Troy Volunteer Fire Department – 1 station, equipped with an engine, tanker, and rescue truck.

Both fire departments are members of North East Mutual Aid, providing and/or receiving assistance from fire departments in Mansonville & Potton in Southern Quebec, Canada.

EMS: Mississquoi Valley Ambulance Service-1 station, a combined volunteer/paid agency providing paramedic level care.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.1&nbsp;square miles (93.4&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), all land.

History

thumb|River Road Covered Bridge in Troy

Troy was chartered as "Missisquoi." It once produced over of cast iron annually.

In the winter of 1799, a small party of American Indians, led by their chief, Captain Susap, joined the colonists at Troy, built their camps on the river and wintered near them. These Indians were nearly starving, which probably arose from the moose and deer, which formerly abounded here, being destroyed by the settlers. Their principal employment was making baskets, birch-bark cups and pails, and other Indian trinkets. They left in the spring and never returned. One of the party was a Native American woman, Molly Orcutt, who became quite noted among the settlers as a healer. She was found dead on Mount Whitecap, in East Andover, Maine, in 1817, having died, it is believed, at an age of 140 years.

Dr. Levi Moore and A.j. Rowell were Underground Railroad agents before the Civil War.

In one of the stranger chapters in Vermont history, researcher and scientist Gerald Bull constructed the Space Research Corporation in Highwater the town's Quebec neighboring city, in 1967. His intent was to fire research packages into orbit using heavy artillery. This laboratory straddled the Vermont border. Bull was ultimately imprisoned for violating international regulations regarding an embargo on South Africa. This resulted in the bankruptcy of his corporation.

In 1998, a flood damaged the generator at Bakers Falls dam. The 600&nbsp;kW generator produced an annual output of 1,500 MW.

In 2010, the Troy Elementary School had the highest percentage of students qualifying for free lunch in the county, 73%. The state average was 31%.

Demographics

As of the census