Old Troy, Texas, known as Troy, Texas, for most of its existence and the location of the Elm Creek Post Office, is a

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Bell County, Texas Bell County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Belton. As of the 2020 census, its population was 370,647. Bell County is part of the Killeen–Temple, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

, about two miles north of the current city of

Troy, Texas Troy is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,375 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Troy is located in northern Bell County at (31.202 ...

. It was one of the places settled in the 1850s, with a post office named Elm Creek established in 1854. When the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad came through in 1882, it built its route south of the town and established a station at what is now Troy, Texas. Many of the residents resisted the rise of New Troy and the school at Old Troy still had 60 students in 1903. It totally vanished by the late 1920s.

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Handbook of Texas online article on Old Troy
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