Troy Museum and Historic Village
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The Troy Museum and Historic Village is located in the city of Troy, Michigan
. The establishment allows visitors to view the lifestyle of those who lived in Troy Township in the 1800s. The carefully restored buildings include the main building (City Hall), log cabin, a Greek Revival Home, a brick one-room school, print shop, wagon shop, a town hall, a general store, and a turn of the century church and parsonage.
in 1832. The store was demolished in 1963 but was reconstructed as a representation the store in the village a while later. Inside the store you are able to see examples of items that used to be sold ch as the cast iron stove.
Troy, Michigan
Troy is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan, and is a suburb of Detroit. The population was 80,980 at the 2010 census, making it the 11th-largest city in Michigan by population, and the largest city in Oakland County...
. The establishment allows visitors to view the lifestyle of those who lived in Troy Township in the 1800s. The carefully restored buildings include the main building (City Hall), log cabin, a Greek Revival Home, a brick one-room school, print shop, wagon shop, a town hall, a general store, and a turn of the century church and parsonage.
Main Building (City Hall)
The main building that was once upon a time called Troy Township but later on renamed city hall was designed by an architect named J. Bissell and was made in the year 1927. The building was remade under the leadership of the township supervisor Morris Wattles who decided that the building should be modeled after a dutch colonial tavern in the city of Troy, New York. After the completion of the City Hall the museum opened inside of the building in 1966.Print Shop
J. Henry Russell owned this shop. He did woodturning, tinsmithing and also photography. The print store was used to make posters, calling cards and public announcements. Troy Township's old water meter was renovated in the year of 1978 so it could serve as a printshop for the villageCaswell House (Greek Revival Home)
The pioneer Soloman Caswell built the home in 1832. The house's symmetrical windows and cornice with dentils are reasons why the house was known as a greek revival home. The house contained stovepipes that provided heat the all the rooms in the house. The house was very similar to any other house that would have existed in the 1800s. The house contained a dry sink for washing dishes and even food was kept in tin-punched panels that was used to keep flies off of food.Old Troy Church
This church was built in 1837 at troy corners. The deed to the land of the church was sold for $1.00 by the pioneer Johnson Niles. New stained glass windows were installed in the church around 1900. Still many of the windows of the church were never removed. The church was changed to the Methodist Episcopal community in 1862. The church served as the village's house of worship until 1963. The original bell in the church is still there to this day.Log Cabin
The Log Cabin is a one-room home that serves as a depiction of the life of a pioneer in the 1840s. The cabin has a fireplace that was once used for heat and to provide good meals. The mother of the house did handwork while rocking the baby in a cradle. The parents slept in a bed made of rope, the children instead got to sleep in the loft on straw mattresses covered with quilts.Wagon Shop
The Wagon Shop's Blacksmith provided residents of the village with iron farm tools, household utensils and wagon parts as well. the Blacksmith would as work with the wood workers in the village to create objects such as wagons and other things too.General Store
The town's general store was built by Edward PeckEdward Peck
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in 1832. The store was demolished in 1963 but was reconstructed as a representation the store in the village a while later. Inside the store you are able to see examples of items that used to be sold ch as the cast iron stove.