New Albany

New Albany, capital of Floyd county, Indiana, is on the north bank of the Ohio River, nearly opposite Louisville. By rail it is 317 miles S. by E. of Chicago and 267 miles E. of St Louis. The city is well built, and is the principal manufacturing town in the state. It contains iron and brass foundries, rolling-mills, potteries and brick-yards, flour, woollen, cotton, and planing mills, &c.; while its plate-glass works are the largest in the United States. Pop. (1880) 16,423; (1890) 21,050.