Name: Albin
 
County: Laramie
 
Authority Name:
 
Latitude: 412504N
 
Longitude: 1040554W
 
Feature Type: Populated Place
 
Origin of Name:  Named for John Albin Anderson, first postmaster, (appointed in 1905 by Teddy Roosevelt and to 1936 was only postmaster to hold the post.) The town site was laid out in 1928 by the Union Pacific Railroad.  Mr. Anderson moved the store and post office from his farm to town at that time.
Source: WPA
 
Other Names:
 
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Inventors from Albin in the Wyoming Inventors Database


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