City Of New Albany Indiana

New Albany was founded in July 1813 when three brothers from New York.
Joel, Abner, and Nathaniel Scribner arrived at the Falls of the Ohio
and named the site after Albany, the capital of New York state. The
Scribner House still stands. The site was originally part of George
Rogers Clark's grant from the Virginia legislature. In 1819, three
years after Indiana was admitted as a state, New Albany became the seat
of government for Floyd County. The steamboat industry was the engine of
the city's economy during the mid-19th century. At least a half-dozen
shipbuilders were in operation, and turned out a multitude of
steamboats, including the Robert E. Lee. New Albany's Main Street
features a large collection of late 19th century mansions from the
city's heyday as a shipbuilding center. The centerpiece is the
Culbertson Mansion, a three-story French Second Empire Style structure,
which is today an Indiana state memorial.

Shipbuilding in New Albany was accompanied by a wide range of ancillary
business, including machine shops, foundries, cabinet and furniture
factories, and silversmith shops. Its second largest business was the
American Plate Glass Works. By 1850, New Albany was the largest city in
Indiana and, prior to the Civil War, was a stop in the Underground
Railroad. In the early 20th century, New Albany became a center of
plywood and veneer, and by 1920 was the largest producer in the world.