Editing St. Florian, Alabama (section)

==History==
The area was first called Wilson Stand, for John and Matthew Wilson, the original owners of the town site.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l9ohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zZ8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5067%2C331045 | title=What's the origin of your town's name? | work=Times Daily | date=June 3, 2006 | access-date=October 18, 2015 | pages=4A}}</ref> The present community was founded in the 1870s by a colony of Germans who named the town after [[Saint Florian]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tBAsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s8YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=991%2C392184 | title=The Historical Highways and Byways of Lauderdale County | work=[[TimesDaily]] | date=March 1, 1962 | access-date=April 23, 2015 | author=Darby, A. J. | pages=Page 6, Section 3}}</ref> A post office was established at St. Florian in 1879, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Lauderdale&searchtext=&pagenum=3 | title=Lauderdale County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=April 23, 2015}}</ref> The town incorporated at some point in the 1970s, as cited by the 1980 U.S. Census.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Bureau of the Census |title=1980 Census Characteristics of the Population - Number of Inhabitants - Alabama |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_alABC-01.pdf |date=April 1982}}</ref>