. The city of Troy and its vicinity. o the public on Friday, Oc-2, 1874. The act incorporating theTroy and West Troy Bridge Companywas passed April 23. 1872 Capitalstock, $150,000; bonds, $200, work of constructing the stonepiers of the iron structure was begunin the fall of 1872. The bridge costabout $350,000. The office of thecompany is at No. 153 River Forsyth, president; John FRoy, vice-president; E. R. Vail, sec-retary and treasurer. Broadway became the name ofAlbanv Street in 1861. Brunswick, a town of Rensse-laer County, erected March 20, extends along the ea


. The city of Troy and its vicinity. o the public on Friday, Oc-2, 1874. The act incorporating theTroy and West Troy Bridge Companywas passed April 23. 1872 Capitalstock, $150,000; bonds, $200, work of constructing the stonepiers of the iron structure was begunin the fall of 1872. The bridge costabout $350,000. The office of thecompany is at No. 153 River Forsyth, president; John FRoy, vice-president; E. R. Vail, sec-retary and treasurer. Broadway became the name ofAlbanv Street in 1861. Brunswick, a town of Rensse-laer County, erected March 20, extends along the east bounds ofthe towns of Lansingburgh and : 1810, 2,302 ; 1815, 2,233 ;1820, 2,318 ; 1825, 2,478 ; 1830, 2,575 ;1835. 2,679; 1840, 3,051 ; 1845, 2,855 ;1850, 3,146 ; 1855, 3,101 ; i860, ;1865, 3,175 ; 1870, 3,128; 1S75. ;1880, 3,402. Eagle Mills, formerly called Mill-town, in the town of Brunswick, isabout four miles from Troy It con-tains about sixty buildings, includingtwo churches, two stores, a hoe manu-. 43 factory, a foundry, and a tavern. Pop-ulation about 500. Cropseyville isnear the eastern limits of tlie Centre, Clums Corners,Haynerville, Platesville, and RockHollow are small villages in the town. Burden Iron Company.—The appliances for manufacturing annu-ally fifty one millions of horse andmule shoes, enough to shoe the feet ofmore than twelve millions of horsesand mules, are but a part of the mas-sive machinery contained in the mileor more of buildings of the extensiveworks of the company occupying twolocations in the south part of the city ;one immediately south of the WynantsKill, the other north of the 1809, John Converse and severalother copartners leased two waterprivileges on the creek, and erected atthe upper fall a rolling and slittingmill. The establishment was enlargedin 1813, when it became the propertyof the Troy Iron and Nail FactoryCompany ; John Converse, RugglesWhiting, Nathaniel Adams, E. ,


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