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Documenting Change: Industry and Business in Troy and Rensselaer County, NY
1945 to the Present

A Resource Guide

A Rensselaer County Historical Society Publication
Troy, New York, Summer 1996

This documentation project was funded in part by a grant from the
NYS Archives Documentary Heritage Program, 1995-6.

I. Introductions

The Research Value of Business Records - Prof. Gerald Zahavi

Project Description and Methodology - Stacy Pomeroy Draper,Project Director & Philip B. Eppard, Project Archivist

II. Businesses/Industries Listings

Documentation Survey of Businesses and Industries in Troy and Rensselaer County, NY

Survey Site Listing

The following list of businesses and industries in Troy and Rensselaer was used as the basis for the survey. Firms that are included in the survey are in bold type. Firms for which no information was found, that did not respond to the initial contact or that were not interested in participating in the project are shown in regular type.

American Seal Mfg. Co.

*Ashe Manufacturing Corp.(Rensselaer)

BASF (Rensselaer)

Burden Iron Company

Carpinello Ice, Frank J. & Son (Rensselaer)

Clever Fellows

Cluett Peabody and Company

Collins Lumber

*Fitzgerald Bros.

Charles Freihofer Baking Co.

Garden Way, Inc.

Geier & Bluhm

Gurley Precision Instruments

Hedley Park Place/Cadillac

*Huyck Mills (Rensselaer)

Integrated Book Technology (Tech Park)

King Fuels

Loctite VSI

Ludlow Valve

Manning Paper (Lydall Inc. - Green Island)

Map Info

Marvin-Neitzel

Medical Linen Laundry (new)

*Meneely & Co.

Polsinello Fuels

*Portec Co.

 

*Rail Joint Co

Ready Fund-Raising

Regal Art Press

Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce

*Republic Steel (now LTV in Cleveland OH)

Ross Valve

Standard Mfg. Co.

*Sterling Winthrop (Rensselaer)

Troy Mattress

Troy Strategy Group

John L. Thompson Sons

Troy Belting & Supply Co.

Troy Boiler Works

Troy Downtown Business Council

*Troy Livability Campaign

CW Whalen

Value Behavioral Health/Corporate Health Dimensions

Wheeler Bros. Brass Founders

Whitehurst Printing

Wultex/Marshall Mills

Zappala & Co. Inc. (Rensselaer)

 

 

* Firms no longer in business

 

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