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This site was prepared to make available for individuals information on the residents of St Albans from the earliest to the current, this information has been compiled as accurately as possible and is free for any one to use in historical or family research but cannot be reproduced for commercial use or sale.  

St. Albans first known as Berlin and then as township number five (5) range four (4), the first range north of the Plymouth Patent and was granted by King James of England to the Plymouth Colony in 1606.

In the 1810 census we find the name to be Fairhaven, and St. Albans in 1820.

Dr. John Warren of Boston Massachusetts purchased 28,200 acres which included St. Albans around 1799, Benjamin Shepherd was his agent for the lands purchased in St Albans.

The first settlers were Issachar Cook, Wiloby Cook, Joseph Dearborn, Paul Felker, Benjamin French, Samuel Grant, Luke Grover, Abel Hackett, Jonathan Hilton, John Lyford, James Martin, Abraham Moor, Samuel Moor, Wm. Moor, James Palmer, David Row, Isaac Rowel, Asa Russell, John Smart, Joseph Watson, and Asa Wiggin.

St Albans was incorporated on June 13, 1813 and is located in the mid section of Maine surrounded by Harmony, Ripley, Corinna, Palmyra, and Hartland.

St Albans is known as the home of country and western legend "Slim Clark" as depicted on the sign in front of the town library, which is also one of the meeting places of the St Albans historical society.

The area is mostly agricultural with rolling hills and several water bodies, big and little Indian Lake among them, the area is very rural and laid back.