New Albany Downtown Historic District--Footnote 1

New Albany Downtown Historic District
Historical Marker
22.2004.2

Footnote 1

New Albany lots were advertised for sale 1813.

The first sentence of this newspaper advertisement titled "New Albany" in the Philadelphia Aurora of August 19, 1813 states:

"This town, just laid out with spacious streets, public square, market, &c. is situated on the banks of the Ohio River, at the crossing place from Louisville to Vincennes, about two miles below the Falls, in the Indiana Territory, affords a beautiful and commodious harbor."

Sections extracted from William Scribner's Diary Recollections, 11-13, New Albany/Floyd County Public Library; this handwritten item begins "My Dear Daughter," and is dated April 3, 1862 from New Albany.