Albion, Idaho

City Hall
http://www.albionvalley.com/clerk.htm Albion City Clerk 225 South Main Street Albion, Idaho 83311 208 673-5352

Cemeteries
Albion Cemetery Some records of this cemetery at the Idaho State Archives in Boise; transcription of 236 gravestones available through Find-a-Grave.com website; transcription of gravestones at USGenWeb archives for Cassia County; photo of 1 gravestone available at idahogravestones.org  Albion Mormon Cemetery  Some records of this cemetery at the Idaho State Archives in Boise; transcription of 140 gravestones available through Find-a-Grave.com website; transcription of 158 gravestones available through Interment.net website; transcription of gravestones at USGenWeb archives for Cassia County; photo of 1 gravestone available at idahogravestones.org  Albion Masonic Cemetery  Some records of this cemetery at the Idaho State Archives in Boise; transcription of 11 gravestones available through Find-a-Grave.com website; transcription of gravestones at USGenWeb archives for Cassia County

Current
There is a ward and a branch (Marsh Valley) in Albion.

Historical
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the in Salt Lake City or at its Family History Centers.

Directories
The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, regional and state directories.

Funeral Homes
See Homes in Rupert or Burley

History
The town of Albion was founded in about the year 1873 and called Marsh Basin. James S Lewis of Brigham City, Cache County, Utah was the first settler there. He arrived with his family in May, 1875. As early as 1886 the Latter Day saints had erected a log meeting house that served until 1916 when a more modern building was erected, which has an auditorium with seating capacity of 500 persons. It also has an amusement hall and seven class rooms. The Albion Precinct had a population of 560 in 1930.

Additional history of Albion, Idaho and the early Latter-day Saint settlers there can be found in: Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 10.

Albion Valley History

Current
There does not appear to be a newspaper being published in Albion at the present time.

Historical
Copies of the following newspapers published in Albion are included in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.

Albion nugget -- 1914:3:13 Busy bee -- 1894:3:29, 1894:11:15  Cassia County times --1889  1889:8:16  Cassia County times --1892  1892:1:22, 12:9, 12:23

Cassia County times --1895 1895:11:8 General news -- 1898:11:18