Main Street
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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
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…