TROY

NAME: Troy COUNTY: Pinal ROADS: 4WD LEGAL INFO: T3S, R14E CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, fall

COMMENTS: Privately owned by a ranch. REMAINS: A few buildings.

Troy's post office was established August 5, 1901 and discontinued September 15, 1910. Troy was known as a model mining camp due to its decision to exclude alcohol altogether. Troy had a school, assay laboratory, boardinghouse, store, hospital, union hall and reading room and much more. Troy even had a municipal water system. About 200 people lived here. Today the site is occupied by a private ranch.

Troy Courtesy Arizona Historical Society

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