Steamboats under construction, ca. 1850

ID: 1221 ~ Source: Harold Vincent Miller, "The Industrial Development of New Albany, Indiana" (M.S thesis, University of Chicago, 1934), ~ Date: 1850

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Steamboats under construction in New Albany, circa 1850. This is the only known photograph of New Albany's shipbuilding industry during its heyday.

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New Albany Shipyards

By Ashley Slavey, Megan Simms, Wes Cunningham, Eric Brumfield, and Katy Morrison

From the mid-1820s to the Civil War, shipbuilding fueled New Albany’s economic growth. New Albany shipyards produced $12 million worth of rivercraft by 1860. Production began in 1819 and peaked in 1856, when New Albany builders produced twenty-two…