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Mount Troy
Mount Troy
is a
mountain
in the
City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska
,
United States
. It is a peak of the
Boundary Ranges
, located on
Douglas Island
, west of the head of
Kowee Creek
and southwest of
the city
of
Juneau
.
In 1950, the
United States Forest Service
named the mountain after
John Weir Troy
, the territorial governor of
Alaska
from 1933 to 1939. The name was made
official
by the
United States Board on Geographic Names
in
1952
and entered into
the United
States
Geological
Survey's
Geographic Names Information System
on
January 1, 2000
.