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Shipbuilding made New Albany a manufacturing center. Foundries, cabinetmakers, and craftsmen supplied shipbuilders with good and services. After the Civil War, many of these firms remained in business by finding new markets to serve. Image courtesy of Floyd County Gazetteer
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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…