Alamance County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States   North Carolina    Alamance County

History
Alamance County was named after Great Alamance Creek, site of the Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771). This pre-Revelutionary War battle in which militia under the command of Governor William Tryon crushed the Regulator movement. The Great Alamance Creek, and in turn the Little Alamance Creek, according to legend, were named after a local Native American word to describe the blue mud that was found at the bottom of the creeks. Other legends say that the name came from another local Native American word meaning "noisy river" or for the Alamanni region of Rhineland, Germany, where many of the early settlers would have come from. Before being formed as a county, the region had at least one known small Southeastern tribe of Native American in the 18th century - the Sissipahaw who lived in the area bound by modern Saxapahaw, the area known as the Hawfields, and Haw River in the county European settlers entered the region in the late 17th century chiefly following Native American trading paths, and set up their farms what they called the "Haw Old Fields", fertile ground previously tilled by the Sissipahaw. The paths later became the basis of the railroad and interstate highway routes.

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Parent County
1849--Alamance County was created 29 January 1849 from Orange County. County seat: Graham

Neighboring Counties

 * Caswell
 * Chatham
 * Guilford
 * Orange
 * Randolph
 * Rockingham

Yearbooks

 * Elon University: 1913-2009
 * Alamance County students at North Carolina colleges - a list via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Web Sites

 * NCGenWeb: Alamance County - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project