New Albany Hosiery Mill
This file appears in: Hedden's Grove Neighborhood
William A. Hedden, David Hedden's oldest son, became the proprietor of the New Albany Hosiery Mill. "One of the most important and successful of New Albany's manufacturing establishments," the mill occupied this complex on Ekin Avenue near Vincennes Street. Its products included "fine gauge hose, fashioned hose, ribbed hose, patent German socks, shaker socks, and stocking yarn."
Image courtesy of New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collection
This file appears in: Hedden's Grove Neighborhood
Hedden's Grove Neighborhood
In August 1860, at a site beside the Charlestown Road on the northeast side of New Albany, Black Americans gathered to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved people in the West Indies a quarter-century before. Speaking before the group, a Reverend…