Named after George Michael Troup (Georgia’s governor from 1823–1827), Troup Ward was developed in 1851 as one of three final wards to follow the Trustee-era formula. Like the other eastern wards, it is compressed, with only four 60 × 90–foot lots across each tything. The land for Troup Ward was taken mostly from the town common, but the eastern edge was made possible by the City’s acquisition of two garden lots in 1852. Troup Ward was rather slow to develop, with most of the lots remaining empty until after the Civil War. The ward has a high percentage of small- to-medium-size row houses built in the late nineteenth century.
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