Site of Woods Fort / Old Town Spring Park - Downtown Troy Historic District - Troy, MO
Posted by: YoSam.
N 38° 58.695 W 090° 58.854
15S E 674898 N 4316301
Both log cabins are replicas and are NC to the historic district.
Waymark Code: WMR6HE
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/17/2016
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County of site: Lincoln County
Location of park: Boone St. & Main St., Troy
City lot # 166
Date built: 1918, 1976
Historic Name: Site of Woods Fort / Old
Town Spring Park
Current Owner: City of Troy Parks & Recreation
"Southwest Corner Main and Boone Streets (Contributing – 1) (Noncontributing – 2)
Spring Park commemorates Troy’s first settlement, Woods’ Fort. The park in its present form
was created in 1918 and is a contributing resource. The site is a public park situated along the
west side of Main Street at its intersection with Boone Street. Within the park are two log
buildings constructed in 1976. The cabins are noncontributing because they were constructed
after the period of significance. A round granite monument with a flat circular limestone base,
erected in 1918, is located near the northeast corner of the parcel. A stone water fountain (c.
1935) is located at the western edge of the park. The site is surrounded by a public sidewalk at
the east and north. The log buildings on the site have wooden shingled gabled roofs and exterior
dovetail notched log walls. Both buildings face east toward Main Street. The south building is an
outbuilding with a gable-front plan. The façade holds a single door of vertical board construction.
Side (north and south) elevations have single sash windows. The residential style cabin is
situated north of the outbuilding. The single pen cabin’s façade holds a central vertical board
door with a small single-light window. Offsetting the entrance to the south is a six-light single-sash window. The north elevation has an exterior end limestone chimney. There is a single
vertical wood door on the rear (west) elevation and a single window on the south elevation." ~ NRHP Nomination Form