Troy Through Time - Don Rittner

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Troy is one of the most historic cities in the United States. Originally the home of the Mohican tribe, the area was settled by the Dutch in the early eighteenth century and the city itself was founded by the Vanderheyden family in 1787. Troy holds claim to being the birthplace of America's Industrial Revolution, and a major manufacturer of iron products during the 1800s. Troy has earned some distinctive titles in its 230 years of existence, and was referred to as The Home of Uncle Sam, and The Collar City. In his latest book, Troy Through Time, local historian Don Rittner looks at the city's rich heritage and with informative captions provides comparative then and now photographs showing the dramatic changes the city has gone through--especially during the past century. Due to the confluence of major waterways and the accompanying water power, industry favored Troy making it one of the wealthiest cities in the United State and the end of the nineteenth century. Troy, therefore, is noted for a wealth of Victorian architecture downtown and elaborate private homes in various neighborhoods. As industries have come and gone and as the street scenes have changed, Rittner takes the reader on a fascinating journey through time, showing how the impact of human activity to this riverside community....

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DON RITTNER is an author, environmentalist, documentarian, historian and archaeologist. He has authored more than 40 books and over 1000 articles in science, history, computers and the Internet. He published the first book to show the public how to use the Internet for a social cause (EcoLinking: Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information) in 1992. He was the producer of the documentaries, The Neighborhood That Disappeared and ECHOES From The Neighborhood That Disappeared that documented the displacement of 9000 immigrant families from Albany's South End during the construction of the Empire State Mall during the early 1960s....