63073 - St. Albans, Missouri
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 38° 34.934 W 090° 46.147
15S E 694317 N 4272778
Re-purposed train depot, in re-invented town...
Waymark Code: WMY65Q
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member deano1943
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County of poset office: Franklin County
Location: St. Albans Rd., in old train station, St. Albans
Phone: 636-273-5306
Retail Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:00am to 4:00pm; Saturday: 9:00am to 11:00am

This facility does not process US Passports applications or renewals. Check other towns in nearby locations.

"St. Albans, Missouri has re-invented itself into a country club community with big, fancy homes and of course a golf course. The town actually was a small riverfront community serviced by the Rock Island RR. The town re-purposed the Rock Island station a bunch of offices and the town's Post Office." ~ Shuttletrain's Wanderings

"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.

Type of structure:: re-invented train depot

re-enter Zip Code here:: 63073

Current Status:: Still in Use
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