Troy is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, Oklahoma, United States. A post office operated in Troy from 1897 to 1954.Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965, p.208. The community was named after Troy, New York. Ten Acre Rock quarry near Troy was the source of the granite used to build the Oklahoma State Capitol.Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma, July 15, 1921, p. 114.Phillips, Mary. "Capitol's pink granite has colorful past," NewsOK, September 23, 2011. Accessed January 31, 2015.
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