Many Trojans do not realize that the city of Troy was created from three Dutch farms, a couple of villages and hamlets, and a sort of no-man land called Batestown.

In the 20th century the village of Lansingburgh was added and that included the village of Dort (now called Speigeltown, a hamlet that was added to Lansingburgh in 1819). Just where were these pieces of the Troy puzzle?

Adamsville was a factory village located around the Troy Iron and Nail Factory (later became the famous Burden Iron Company) in the far southern end of present Troy near the Menands Bridge. Adamsville was named for Col. Nathaniel Adams, who “fell a victim to his unwearied efforts, and the unceasing activity of a mind of no ordinary powers in mechanics, constantly on the stretch of exertion, in bringing this establishment into system, and the very admirable order in which he left it.”

He was one of the founders of the Troy Iron and Nail Factory Company, along with four others. It became a busy manufacturing village consisting of a rolling and slitting mill, nail factory and other shops for other mechanical business, and about 50 houses.

Another Adamsville existed in the extreme........

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