Welcome to the Collar City!

Welcome to the Collar City! (HM19HL)

Location: Troy, NY 12180 Rensselaer County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 44.179', W 73° 41.241'

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The detachable shirt collar was invented in Troy in 1827 by a local housewife, Hannah Montague. Form more than a hundred years, various styles of the stiff cotton collars were worn by merchants, businessmen and other "white collar" workers.

Troy produced over 90% of the collars worn in America. By the early 1900s, this part of the city was almost exclusively collar and cuff factories and commercial laundries.

Over half of the workers in the collar industry were women. Many of them were immigrants, like the Irish-born Kate Mullaney, who organized 500 female laundry workers in 1864 into the nationally recognized Collar Laundry Union.
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HM NumberHM19HL
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Date Added Sunday, August 31st, 2014 at 7:03pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 607449 N 4732369
Decimal Degrees42.73631667, -73.68735000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 44.179', W 73° 41.241'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 44' 10.74" N, 73° 41' 14.46" W
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Area Code(s)518, 212
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 435-453 River St, Troy NY 12180, US
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