. The city of Troy and its vicinity. Fort Edward; EnglandsBlock, Pittsfield, Mass ; and Mer-chants Row, Rutland, Vt. The firmoccupied its Temple of Music in 1875,where in its spacious salesrooms areto be found a large selection of thedifferent pianos and organa so popularwith the public. Pittstown, a town in RensselaerCounty, was erected March 7, 1788,by the act for dividing the countiesof this state into towns. The townembraces a great part of the territoryof the Pittstown patent, granted byGeorge III., July 23, 1761. Thetract of land was named Pittstown inhonor of William Pitt, Earl of Chat-
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. Fort Edward; EnglandsBlock, Pittsfield, Mass ; and Mer-chants Row, Rutland, Vt. The firmoccupied its Temple of Music in 1875,where in its spacious salesrooms areto be found a large selection of thedifferent pianos and organa so popularwith the public. Pittstown, a town in RensselaerCounty, was erected March 7, 1788,by the act for dividing the countiesof this state into towns. The townembraces a great part of the territoryof the Pittstown patent, granted byGeorge III., July 23, 1761. Thetract of land was named Pittstown inhonor of William Pitt, Earl of Chat-ham. Johnsonville, so named by Wil-liam Johnson, a miller, at the Lick,as its site was first called, a station onthe Troy and Boston, the Boston,Hoosac Tunnel and Western, and theGreenwich and Johnsonvdle railroads,seventeen miles from Troy, had a pop-ulation of 397 in 1880. In it arethree churches, two hotels, six stores,and an axe factory. Valley Falls,population, in 1880, 7S2, fourteenmiles from Troy, is a station on the rsiS^^]. CLUETT & SONS MUSIC HOUSE. 235 Troy and Boston, and the Boston,Hoosac Tunnel and Western rail-roads. A church, several factories,mills, hotels, and stores, and about125 dwellings are in it. Tomhannock,thirteen miles northeast of Troy, em-braces two churches, a hotel, severalstores and mills, and about fifty otherbuildings. Raymertown, ten milesfrom Troy, contains a church, a hotel,several stores and mills, and aboutfifty dwellings. Boyntonville, twochurches, two hotels, several stores,and about thirty-five other Corners, three churches,three stores, and about thirty-fivebuildings. North Pittstown, a churchand about twenty other buildings. East Pittstown, a church ; and Cooks-borough, a church. Population of the town: 1790, 2,447; 1800, 3,483; 1810, 3,692; 1815, 3,708; 1S20, 3,772; 1825, ; 1830, 3,702; TS35, 3,919; 1840, 3,784; 1845. ; 1S50 3,732; 1S55, 3,602; i860, 3,826; 1S65, 3,831; 1870, 4,093; 1875, 3,967; 1880, 4,1
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