St. Albans, Missouri

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A view of the Missouri River and Saint Albans Island

St.Script error: No such module "String".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,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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