. The city of Troy and its vicinity. ill Street. Rechabites.— Troy Tent, No. 30, meets on thesecond and fourth Thursday eveningsin each month at No. 269 River Street. Rensselaer County, named inhonor of the Van Rensselaer family,was erected from a part of AlbanyCounty, by the act of legislature,passed February 7, 1791. It isbounded on the east by the states ofMassachusetts and Vermont, on thenorth by Washington County, on thesouth by Columbia County, and onthe west by the Hudson River, andincludes the islands nearest the eastbank of the stream. Its greatestlength is thirty miles and its greate
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. ill Street. Rechabites.— Troy Tent, No. 30, meets on thesecond and fourth Thursday eveningsin each month at No. 269 River Street. Rensselaer County, named inhonor of the Van Rensselaer family,was erected from a part of AlbanyCounty, by the act of legislature,passed February 7, 1791. It isbounded on the east by the states ofMassachusetts and Vermont, on thenorth by Washington County, on thesouth by Columbia County, and onthe west by the Hudson River, andincludes the islands nearest the eastbank of the stream. Its greatestlength is thirty miles and its greatestbreadth twenty-two miles. It has anarea of 631 square miles, and lies be-tween 42*^27 and 42° 55 north lati-tude and between 3° 10 and 3° 41east longitude. The county embracesseventeen towns. Population in 1880,115,340. (Seetownsof Berlin, Bruns-wick, East Greenbush, Grafton,Greenbush, Hoosick, Lansing-burgh, Nassau, North Greenbush,Petersburgh, Pittstown, Poes-tenkill, Sandlake, Schaghti-coke, Schodack, Stephentown,Troy.) 34. 259 Rensselaer Union Club, or-ganized October 5, 1S80. Club Build-ing, No. 14 First Street. GilbertRobertson, jr., president; Ellas , treasurer; George P. Daw,secretary. Roofing.— PoMEROY & Co., patent asphaltand gravel roofing, Union Street, be-tween Slate and Congress streets. Williams & Manocue, (R. J. Wil-liams and E. Manogue), roofing con-tractors and dealers in iron, tin, tileand rubber roofing materials. Slateroofing a specialty. Office, No. 279River Street. Established, August,1885. Roman Catholic Churches.— There are eight Roman Catholicchurches in the city, if St. Michaelsbe included. St. Peters Church is on thenortheast corner of North Second andHutton streets. A number of RomanCatholics, worshiping in the school-house on the southeast corner of Sec-ond and Ferry streets, was organizedinto a congregation in 1825, and tookthe name of St. Peters Roman Cath-olic Church of Troy. Before the de-molition of the court-house, in 1827,th
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