Underground Passage

ID: 1036 ~ Source: New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collections ~ Date: 1983

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

A local school group takes a tour of the underground passages in the basement of the church. These passageways are believed to have sheltered freedom-seeking runaways.
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…