Main Street

ID: 1034 ~ Source: New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collections ~ Creator: "The Art Work of New Albany," Collection ~ Date: 1893

This file appears in: Second Presbyterian Church/Second Baptist Church

Late nineteenth-century view of Main Street with the steeple of Second Presbyterian Church shown in the distance.
Image courtesy of New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collections.

This file appears in: Second Presbyterian Church/Second Baptist Church

Second Presbyterian Church/Second Baptist Church

By Alex Covington, Jacob Burress, Trish Nohalty, and Tommy Skaggs

Before the Civil War, New Albany was the largest city in Indiana. It also had the largest population of black residents in the state. At least eight percent of Indiana blacks lived in Floyd County. Runaway slaves routinely fled the South by crossing…