From collection New Albany Public Library News Collection
Contributed to the Underground Railroad
With a new designation from the National Park Service, Second Baptist Church in New Albany is now in the same category as Harriet Tubman's adulthood home and the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. The first congregation members of Second Baptist Church, then a Presbyterian place of worship, were remarkably anti-slavery. See article for more. Continues on page A8. (photos).