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Alamance County

Orange County’s western neighbor, formed in 1849 from western Orange. Alamance Battleground, where the Regulators were defeated in 1771, lies within it.

Source: NCpedia: Alamance County

Orange County Indexed covers Orange County. The works below were indexed for an Orange County connection and also carry Alamance County among their catalog subjects; the index does not follow that place on its own.

300 works about Alamance County are indexed here. 8 held at OCPL →

Common subjects in works about Alamance County

Work, Labor & IndustryFamilies, Land & GenealogyWars & Military ServicePolitics & GovernmentColonial Orange CountyThe Regulator crisis, 1766–1771Schools & EducationLaw, Courts & Justice
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Maps of Alamance County

Dated maps that show this place, oldest first: town plans, county, road and soil maps, fire insurance sheets and the U.S. Geological Survey’s topographic maps, each linked to the library or archive that holds it. The USGS maps are free to download.

  1. A Plan of the Camp and Battle of Alamance, the 16th May 1771. Between the Provincials of North Carolina, Commanded by His Excellency Governor Tryon. and Rebels who styled themselves Regulators. Survey'd and Drawn by C. J. Sauthier. DPLA
  2. Property maps of the North Carolina Railroad. No. 3. DPLA
  3. The North Carolina Railroad Map, Book 3 Durham
  4. Eno River Park Plan: Regional Recreation Lands Durham
  5. Forest Cover Map of Duke Forest [1986 DigitalNC
  6. 1987 average daily traffic (ADT) maps NC Cardinal
  7. Geologic map of the Bynum 7.5-minute quadrangle, Orange, Chatham and Alamance Counties, North Carolina NC Cardinal
  8. Geologic map of the Saxapahaw 7.5-minute quadrangle, Alamance and Orange counties, North Carolina NC Cardinal

Indexed works

Works about Alamance County from library and archive catalogs. The most widely held appear first; novels are not shown here. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.

Filter these works by material or period. Counts refer to works, not individual copies. A work may appear under more than one period.

Material

Periodicals 127Reports 120Histories 42Maps 26Statistics 23other types 67

Period

Colonial era (to 1775) 417th century 618th century 23Revolution (1775–1783) 1119th century 17Civil War (1861–1865) 6Reconstruction (1865–1877) 120th century 4

Widely held

Church in the Old Fields: Hawfields Presbyterian Church and Community in North Carolina

Turner, Herbert Snipes · 1962

Herbert Snipes Turner's history of Hawfields Presbyterian Church and its community from 1738 to 1960. Hawfields lies in what is now Alamance County, land that was part of Orange County until 1849, and the book gives a place to Henry Pattillo, the congregation's eighteenth-century minister. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1962, 297 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.

Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1963).

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 285.175 TUR NC Cardinal UNC Durham CH Historical Society Library of Congress

The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County

Chilton, Mark · 2012 · Hand Made Books

Mark Chilton's oversized atlas plotting eighteenth-century land grants across the original Orange County, which stretched well beyond today's boundaries into what became Alamance and Durham counties. Published in Carrboro by Hand Made Books beginning in 2012, the set was planned in four volumes: Henry McCulloh's great tract number 11 and the land north of it; the Saxapahaw old fields (volume 2); Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the Johnston Tract; and Durham, Rougemont and McCulloh's tract number 12. Maps and color illustrations, 41 cm.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 333.16 CHILTON NC Cardinal UNC Durham Library of Congress

Dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough numbered 59-67, enclosing documents concerning the Regulators

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Numbered dispatches 59 through 67 from Governor William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, with enclosures about the Regulators, whose protests broke into riot at Hillsborough in 1770. Reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office CO 5/302. The papers touch on the council and assembly, naval stores and trade, oaths, militia and provincial troops, judges, sheriffs and juries, voting, currency, Cherokee affairs, clergy, quitrents and land, and name officials such as Richard Caswell, Richard Henderson, Maurice Moore and Hugh Waddell.

Included because: The record names this place alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

NC Cardinal Duke NC State

Letters from William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners, enclosing legislation and accounts of the ship 'Brigantine Fox'

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Letters from Governor William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners in London, with enclosed legislation and the accounts of the ship Brigantine Fox, reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office file CO 5/300. They show the range of a governor's business: council appointments, judges and courts, assembly acts, cotton manufacturing, poverty, naval stores, rice, tobacco and indigo, currency, the Tuscarora, education, marriage, debt and customs. Hillsborough is among the places named, and people include William Johnston, Richard Henderson, Cornelius Harnett and Samuel Strudwick.

Included because: The record names this place alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

NC Cardinal Duke NC State

From Whence We Came: Cane Creek Meeting Sesquibicentennial Remembrance Book

Cane Creek Meeting of Friends · 2001

Cane Creek Meeting's remembrance book for its 250th anniversary in 2001, combining genealogy with church and Quaker history. Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, in southern Alamance County, was set off in 1751 when the area still lay in Orange County.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 289.6 FRO Durham UNC

Cane Creek: Mother of Meetings

Teague, Bobbie T. · 1995 · Cane Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends ; North Carolina Friends Historical Society : North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends

Bobbie T. Teague's history of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, the Quaker meeting in what is now Alamance County that spawned many of the Piedmont's later meetings, hence the title. The meeting dates from 1751, when its ground still lay in Orange County. Published in 1995 by the meeting with the North Carolina Friends Historical Society and the Yearly Meeting, 160 pages with illustrations and maps.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Alamance County (N.C.) -- Church history.

Durham UNC Library of Congress
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Deed research and plats for: Orange and Alamance Co

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2012 · Stewart E. Dunaway

Stewart E. Dunaway's research notes, with plats, for deed records of Orange County, mostly from the eighteenth century, when the county still included the land that later became Alamance County; records in Alamance proper are added where he traced tracts across the line. Self-published in North Carolina in a revision dated October 31, 2012, 736 pages with maps. Subjects include land titles and real property in the two counties and Orange County genealogy.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.

NC Cardinal UNC

Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church

Chalmers, Elizabeth · 1940

Elizabeth Chalmers's 74-page history of Hawfields Presbyterian Church, the old congregation in the Haw River country of what is now Alamance County, published in 1940 with illustrations. It includes Presbyterian experience of the Civil War. Hawfields lay within Orange County until Alamance was formed in 1849, linking the church to the county.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Alamance County.

NC Cardinal UNC

Recently indexed: Family planning in Alamance County, North Carolina (1968) · Giles Mebane (1900) · Cape Fear River basin-1 (Deep and Haw River basins) · Official Arrow map Burlington, Carrboro, Chapel Hill : with Alamance, Durham, Orange counties (1988) · Official Arrow map of Durham & vicinity (1989) · Eno River Park Plan: For the City of Durham ; Master Plan, Phase I (1974)

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Start at OCPL

Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this place. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.

  • Start here · NC 333.16 CHILTON The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County Chilton, Mark · 2012

    Mark Chilton's oversized atlas plotting eighteenth-century land grants across the original Orange County, which stretched well beyond today's boundaries into what became Alamance and Durham counties. Published in Carrboro by Hand Made Books beginning in 2012, the set was planned in four volumes: Henry McCulloh's great tract number 11 and the land north of it; the Saxapahaw old fields (volume 2); Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the Johnston Tract; and Durham, Rougemont and McCulloh's tract number 12. Maps and color illustrations, 41 cm.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 338.476 PACE Bringing Textile History to Life in Alamance County North Carolina Pace, Miriam M. · 2019

    Cotton milling in Alamance County in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, told through the Holt and Green families and the Holts' mill village at Glencoe, built 1880 to 1882, and its plaids. Miriam M. Pace, an archive specialist, wrote it for the Creative Short Book Writer Project of Burlington in 2019; 113 pages with maps, portraits, facsimiles and an index. Alamance was formed from Orange County in 1849.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.658 OAKLEY Mebane Oakley, J. Ronald · 2012

    J. Ronald Oakley's pictorial history of Mebane, the railroad town on the Orange and Alamance county line, from Arcadia Publishing in 2012, 127 pages of photographs. Chapters cover the railroad, industries, businesses, the Depression and war years, profiles past and present, churches and civic clubs, recreation and sports, school days, and preserving the past. Topics include Mebane's history, economy, buildings and railroads.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.658 BOL Remembering Alamance County: Tales of Railroads, Textiles, and Baseball Bolden, Don · 2006

    Don Bolden's short pieces on Alamance County follow its growth from a railroad community into a textile center and bring in C. F. Pete Neese, the first baby born in Burlington, the country doctor Floyd Scott, pitcher Tom Zachary, who gave up Babe Ruth's sixtieth home run in 1927, and Lyndon B. Johnson campaigning through the county. Alamance was formed from Orange County in 1849. History Press, 2006; 127 pages.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.658 PRA A Prayer for the Baby Goat: And Other Alamance County Tales : A Treasury of 20th Century Memories 2001

    Personal recollections of twentieth-century life in Alamance County, which Bob Lasley and Sallie Holt compiled and edited for the Hometown Memories series. Published in Hickory in 2001, 222 illustrated pages. Alamance was formed from Orange County in 1849.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.375 CHI Alamance County, North Carolina 1850 Census With Ancestors and Descendants of Selected Families Chiarito, Marian Dodson · 1987

    The 1850 federal census of Alamance County, the first taken after the county was formed from Orange in 1849, as compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, with the ancestors and descendants of selected families. Published by the compiler in 1987; 236 pages with a map, references and indexes.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.509 BAI Back to Bethel: Cemetery Survery : Bethel United Methodist Church on the Snow Camp Road in Southern Alamance County, North Carolina 1840s - 1987 Bailey, Pat · 1987

    Pat Shaw Bailey's survey of the burial ground at Bethel United Methodist Church, which stands on the Snow Camp Road in southern Alamance County, covering graves from the 1840s to 1987. Compiled for the Bethel Memorial Association's sixtieth anniversary and printed in Burlington in 1987 as a limited first edition, it has 98 pages with illustrations, maps, genealogical tables and an index. Alamance County was cut from Orange in 1849.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.658 ALA Alamance County: The Legacy of Its People and Places 1984

    A large illustrated history of Alamance County, compiled by the Alamance County Historical Museum and edited by Elinor Samons Euliss, combining the county's history with biographical and family material on its people and places. Legacy Publications of Greensboro published it in 1984: 536 pages, maps on the lining papers and an index. Alamance was formed out of Orange County in 1849, with Graham as its seat.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 720.975 LOU Alamance County: Architectural Heritage Lounsbury, Carl · 1980

    Carl Lounsbury's illustrated survey of historic buildings in Alamance County, published in 1980 by the Alamance County Historical Properties Commission; iii and 242 pages with maps and an index. Alamance was formed from Orange County in 1849.

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