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Troy, Oregon

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may have already been serving the Grande Ronde River at the location. The town was always a service center for the surrounding farms and ranches, and a "fisherman's getaway paradise" in its relative isolation and lack of commercial enterprise.
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state line. It is known for its excellent steelhead fishing, and has an RV park and two fishing lodges, several Airbnbs, as well as a resort and a restaurant. The only other service is a public elementary school.
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in 1910. In 1931, the name of the town was officially changed to Troy, presumably honoring a son of the area's original Mormon settlers, Troy Grinstead. A
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Troy began to form in the late 1890s, with the establishment in the area of a Mormon settlement called Nauvoo named after the more famous
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Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States
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Unincorporated communities in Wallowa County, Oregon
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unincorporated community
Wallowa County
Oregon
United States
Grande Ronde
Wenaha
Flora
Oregon Route 3
Washington
settlement in Illinois
platted
ferry
urban drift
Oregon Historical Society
ISBN
0-87595-073-6
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Wallowa County, Oregon
County seat
Enterprise
Cities
Enterprise
Joseph
Lostine
Wallowa
CDP
Wallowa Lake

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