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"'Twas The Night Before Christmas," by Clement Moore, was first published in the Troy Sentinel newspaper on December 23, 1823.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was first performed in 1852, in Troy's Peale's Museum and ran for 150 consecutive nights.

President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed by Sergeant "Boston" Corbett of Troy.

Herman Melville, President Chester A. Arthur, Jane Fonda, Maureen Stapleton, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were all educated in Troy.

Emma Willard, besides starting the first female school for higher education, wrote one of the first complete histories of the U.S. in 1829. Her sister Almira wrote some of the first textbooks for women.

"Uncle Sam" Wilson, who packed meat for the troops during the War of 1812, lived and worked in Troy.

RPI s the oldest science institution in the country and began in Troy in 1824 in the old Farmers Bank.

The iron plates for the iron-clad Civil War ship The Monitor were made in Troy by the Albany Iron Works.

Titus Eddy and family made the secret ink that was used to print all American paper currency during the 19th century, and continued up to World War I.

Herman Melville wrote his first two novels in Lansingburgh, now Troy.

President Chester A. Arthur grew up in Lansingburgh.

Mrs. Hanna Lord Montague, invented the first detachable collar at her home on Third Street, and started the city's famous collar industry around 1827.

By 1925, nine out of ten people in the country were wearing collars made in Troy.

Paper boats were invented by Troy's Eliza Waters in the 1860's.

In 1911, The Troy Council of the Boys Club of America was formed and started Troop I, the first uniformed Boy Scout troop in the U.S. Charles M. Connoly of Troy designed the Boy Scout uniform and the Scout badge.

Troy's Kate Mullany organized the Collarworkers Union in 1865, the first all female union.

Members of the Union "Haymakers," became the nucleus for the New York Giants baseball team. The city of Troy is still an honorary member of the National League. Four Trojans are in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown.

The Ferris Wheel was invented by George Ferris, an RPI Graduate. It had 36 seats. It's believed to be modeled after Burden's Water Wheel that was 60 feet diameter, 22 ft wide and had 36 buckets.

Most of the horseshoes worn by the horses of the northern army during the Civil War were made at the Burden Iron Works.

The Troy firm Geier & Bluhm made spirit levels that went to the Moon with the Apollo astronauts?

In 1924, the largest bell in the world, 7000 pounds, was made in Troy. The largest valve in the world, 96 inches in diameter, was made here.

The Centennial Liberty Bell in Philadelphia's Freedom Hall was made by Troy's Menneley Bell Foundry. It was cast as the replacement for the cracked Liberty Bell.

Bessemer Steel, which profoundly changed the iron industry in the 19th Century, was first made in the U.S. in Troy in 1865.

The first bridge across the Hudson River was the Waterford-Lansingburgh Bridge built in 1804. It was the oldest covered bridge in America and was 800 feet long and 30 feet wide.

The first pianos made in New York State (and maybe the country) were made in Troy by Joshua Thurston in 1819.

The first teakettle was patented by Troy's Ezra Ripley in 1846.

The first compass was patented by Troy's Julius Hanks in 1833.

The big band hit "Sunrise Serenade" was written on Second Street in downtown Troy by the great pianist bandleader Frankie Carle in 1933.

James Connolly, executed by the British for being one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, lived in Troy between 1903 and 1905.

Troy may well have more Tiffany windows per square mile than any other city and has been referred to as "the mother lode of Tiffany" by the world's leading restorer of Tiffany windows.

Troy department store owner William Frear created the now widely-imitated slogan "perfect satisfaction guaranteed or your money cheerfully refunded" in the 1860s.

In 1840, on a per capita basis, Troy was the fourth wealthiest community and 21st largest in population size in the USA.