ALBION C. H., p-v., Edwards co., III., 165 Springfield, 40 g. w. Vincennes, 731 W. Established in 1819. Settled chiefly by English emigrants. The situation is high and healthy. It contains 3 stores, a flouring m. moved by oxen, and 40 or 50 families. It has a brick court house, 44 feet square, and 2 stories high. (Haskell's Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the the United States...,1840)
ALBION Is capital of Edwards county, 170 miles southeast of Springfield, has a high and healthy situation; a plank road, about thirteen miles long, which connects it with Grayville, on the Wabash river, and it is extended twenty miles westward. Albion contains a brick court house and several fine buildings. Joseph Williams, Postmaster. (Hawes' Illinois State Gazetteer...,1859)