St. Albans, Missouri - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

County of village: Franklin County
Location of village: NE section of county; crossroads of MO-t, a couple miles East of MO-100
County is Mid-Central in state, just E. of St. Louis County
Population: 130 in village, 891 in zip code
Elevation: 515 feet (157 m)

"A former town on the Missouri River, in the northeast part of Boles Township. It was laid off in 1837 (Kiel says 1836) by Dr. Peter Kincaid, Sr. a Scotch pyhsician who had served under Napoleon Bonaparte. He settled on the Missouri River in 1818. The town was washed away by the flood of 1844; but fifty-five years later, in 1899, a post office by the same name was established near its former site. The post office was discontinued in 1907.

Saint Albans is said to have been named after the ancient town of St. Albans in England, a municipal borough in Hertfordshire, twenty miles northeast of London. The English city grew up about the early abbey of St. Albans, founded in 793 by King Offa of Mercia in memory of St. Alban, the protomartyr of Britain, a Roman soldier who underwent martyrdom for his faith at the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century.

The Missouri village may have taken its name directly from St. Albans in Franklin County, Vermont. There is also a St. Albans in Maine, and one in West Virginia." ~ History of Franklin County, page 225; County Atlas, 1878 page 14; Kiel's Biographical Directory, page 210; International Encyclopedia, Plat Book A, page 24;.

"It was located in the extreme northeast corner of the county, on Missouri River, at Section 2, Twp. 44 N, R. 2 E, on an unmarked county road from Highway E.

"Dr. Peter Kincaid, a Scotsman, and a very prominent physician and surgeon, who had served under Napoleon Bonaparte, settled on the Missouri River in 1818, and in 1837 laid off St. Alban's, which was washed away in the great flood of 1844." ~ History of Franklin Co., p. 225.