okay, besides the taco Bell on 78, I don't really know anything about New Albany except for I know I've driven through it like a hundred times on the way to B'ham or Mobile the long way. Apparently, it was founded ion the river for saw and/or grist mills.
So what about incorporating the water wheel that powered the mill into the logo? So not forcing the river but adding something definitely river oriented and New Albany related.
I figure you'd have to set the wheel at a 3/4 angle other wise a profile would just look like a steering wheel or something.
Something like the attached (although, meh but you get the idea I'm having (psst, real hack job
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