Old Troy, 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 (United States), county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Belton, Texas, Belton. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 370,647. Bell County is part o ...

approximately two miles north of the current city of

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

References

Handbook of Texas online article on Old Troy
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