A view of the Missouri River and Saint Albans Island

St. Albans is an unincorporated community in northeastern Franklin County, Missouri, United States.[1] It lies approximately five miles northeast of Labadie and about seven miles west of Wildwood. St. Albans is above the Missouri River floodplain. The town borders a small section of St. Charles County which, unlike the rest of the county, lies on the south side of the Missouri River.[2]

St. Albans was founded in 1837.[3] It was named after St Albans, England.[4]

The St. Albans General Store and St. Albans Farms Stone Barn are on the National Register of Historic Places, as is Tavern Cave.[5] The Lewis and Clark Expedition visited that cave and Meriwether Lewis nearly lost his life when slipping down the bluffs here. The expedition journals mention a whirlpool in the river, the Devil's Raceground, which is now dry land, due to a change in the course of the river: it is the portion of St. Charles County anomalously on the south side of the river.

St. Albans was home to The Fulton School at St. Albans, an independent, not-for-profit, private Montessori school serving students from 18 months of age through 12th grade.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: St. Albans, Missouri
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, Delorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.40 ISBN 0899332242
  3. ↑ "Franklin County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ↑ Ramsay, Robert L. (1952). Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names. University of Missouri Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780826205865.
  5. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

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