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{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.}}
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'''St.{{nbsp}}Albans''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in northeastern [[Franklin County, Missouri|Franklin County]], [[Missouri]], United States.<ref>{{GNIS|731641}}</ref> It lies approximately five miles northeast of [[Labadie, Missouri|Labadie]] and about seven miles west of [[Wildwood, Missouri|Wildwood]]. St. Albans is above the [[Missouri River]] floodplain. The town borders a small section of [[St. Charles County, Missouri|St. Charles County]] which, unlike the rest of the county, lies on the south side of the Missouri River.<ref>''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' Delorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.40 {{isbn|0899332242}}</ref>

St. Albans was founded in 1837.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_franklin.html| title=Franklin County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate=30 September 2016| url-status=bot: unknown| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071257/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_franklin.html| archivedate=24 June 2016}}</ref> It was named after [[St Albans]], [[England]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbyjamQWtScC&pg=PA29 | title=Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Ramsay, Robert L. | year=1952 | pages=29| isbn=9780826205865 }}</ref>

The [[St. Albans General Store]] and [[St. Albans Farms Stone Barn]] are on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], as is [[Tavern Cave]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> 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,{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} 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, Missouri|St. Charles County]] anomalously on the south side of the river.

St. Albans was home to [[The Fulton School|The Fulton School at St. Albans]], an independent, not-for-profit, private [[Montessori]] school serving students from 18 months of age through 12th grade.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

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