Steamboat Race
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Steamboat races attracted widespread attention and made heroes out of ship captains. The Baltic (right) and the Diana squared off in a highly touted match in 1859.
Image courtesy of New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collection
Image courtesy of New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collection
This file appears in: New Albany Shipyards
New Albany Shipyards
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…