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We would like to provide the residents of  New Albany  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the New Albany Home page. The New Albany Home page provides as much information as possible on New Albany. Knowing New Albany’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within New Albany’s Home page, you will also find New Albany’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

New Albany has a population of 11085. 52.2% of New Albany’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.8 are female. 70.2% of New Albany is married and 90.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $519,477, and the average rent is $1,850. Household median income in New Albany is $200,580, and the individual median income is $66,288. New Albany’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.4%), Multiple(7.7%), Asian(7.5%), Black(7.5%), Hispanic(6.2%), Other(1.9%).


The land that was to become the city was founded in the center of Plain Township in 1837 by Nobel Landon and William Yantis. Land was split into lots measuring 50 ft (15 m) by 100 ft (30 m) and sold to new settlers. One theory about the name "New Albany" is that some of the original settlers migrated from the Albany, New York, area.


Albany, Ohio was laid out in about 1832, which was prior to the founding of New Albany. During its history, the community has also been known by the name of "Hope".In 1856, New Albany was incorporated with a population of 50, and the first mayor (S. Ogden) was elected. The Wilkins Lumber Mill, later renamed the New Albany Mill, opened in 1881.


In 1922, Mrs. Edward Babbitt was elected the first female mayor of New Albany.In 1970, New Albany was much smaller than it is today, only consisting of a small part of Plain Township that did not touch Columbus. The first annual New Albany Founders' Day Celebration was held in 1976. As late as 1980, the census only listed 414 residents in the village.Rapid growth in New Albany began in the 1990s, partly due to the expansion of the Les Wexner clothing empire and Wexner's construction of his mansion (the second largest in central Ohio behind the Longaberger mansion off Kitzmiller Road in the village).


State Route 161 and access to 161 from I-270 was reconfigured around this time, allowing freeway access into and out of town. In 2008, the New Albany Mill closed 119 years after its downtown opening. The original sawmill had been converted to a hardware store and was a staple in the lives of many of the residents of New Albany.The 2009 Fathima Rifqa Bary controversy occurred in New Albany and made national headlines.


New Albany teen Bary (raised Muslim but a convert to Christianity) ran away from home to Florida, claiming that as a convert she feared that she would be killed by her family, a claim her parents called untrue.


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