This evening I sat down to browse the APS for articles about New Albany and Natchez, (and other places).

New Albany was top-heavy with religious and missionary accounts, a few descriptions of industry, and some steamboat-related discussions. A few articles mentioned the women's academies being formed in the 1850s. GREAT ARTICLE on the fever in N.A. Good R.R. discussions, too.

Natchez was much more diverse, interestingly, containing not only missionary accounts, but also sporting and turf news (lots of that) political discussions, slavery violence. Lots of articles on Yellow Fever. Little on RRs, education, etc.

There were lots of articles on Jackson, mostly political, but GREAT RR Stuff, including annual reports and engineering diagrams.

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I also found for Grant County, an article in the Natl Era describing an antislavery meeting, members as follows: (birthplaces from ancestry.com)

Hon. Judge A. J. Harlan (born Ohio)
J.M. Wallace (Indiana)
A[sberry] Steele, esq. (1814, Kentucky)
Judge James (no matching record)
A[ndrew] Diltze (1801, PA)
E.C. Overman [1820, Indiana]
D[avid] W. Jones [1821, Ohio]
posted by Lloyd at 7:59 PM