Steamboats under construction, ca. 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
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…