New Albany

City and seat of Floyd County, in southern Indiana; population (1990) 36,300. New Albany is situated on the Ohio River, just west of Clarksville and Jeffersonville and opposite Louisville, Kentucky.

A 19th-century shipbuilding centre known especially for its steamboats, New Albany now manufactures such products as plywood, furniture, machinery, stoves, glue, clothing, and fertilizers. Lying in an area noted for its strawberries, the city processes and distributes a number of agricultural products. The former home of revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark, as well as many mansions dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, have been preserved here.

New Albany

City and seat of Union County, in northeastern Mississippi, 37 km/23 mi northwest of Tupelo; population (1990) 6,800. It was the birthplace, in 1897, of the novelist and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, who spent most of his life in the university town of Oxford, which lies 48 km/30 mi west-southwest.

New Albany is a long-established market centre for local farms, which produce cotton, sorghum, and dairy goods. Manufactured goods from the city include furniture and other wood products, car parts, and clothes.