Last week, the site of the Underground Railroad Gardens at Second Baptist Church, was treated anything but sacredly when someone spray-painted the statue of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a freed slave who lived in New Albany and served as a nurse for Union soldiers. 

The statue was installed exactly one year ago in the Underground Railroad Garden behind the Second Baptist Church.

A limestone sculpture of Lucy Higgs Nichols is located in the Underground Railroad Gardens behind the Second Baptist Church in New Albany.