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We would like to provide the residents of  St. Albans  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the St. Albans Home page. The St. Albans Home page provides as much information as possible on St. Albans. Knowing St. Albans’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within St. Albans’s Home page, you will also find St. Albans’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

St. Albans has a population of 10078. 48.9% of St. Albans’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.1 are female. 50% of St. Albans is married and 75.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $122,759, and the average rent is $785. Household median income in St. Albans is $50,969, and the individual median income is $28,769. St. Albans’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.6%), Black(4.2%), Multiple(4.2%), Hispanic(1.8%), Asian(1.5%), Native(0.3%), Other(0.2%).


St. Albans was laid out in 1816. Originally, it was known as Philippi, after Philip Thompson, an early settler, the name afterwards being changed to Colesmouth due to the area and river being discovered by Samuel Cole. The city was then incorporated as Kanawha City in 1868. The town was renamed in 1872 by H.C.


Parsons of the C & O Railroad in honor of his birthplace in St. Albans, Vermont, which is itself named after St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England. The latter town is named for St. Alban, believed to have been the first British Christian martyr.


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