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The county was formed in 1799 from the northern and western parts of Wilkes County. It was named for Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798. In 1849 the southwestern part of Ashe County was combined with parts of Caldwell County, Wilkes County, and Yancey County to form Watauga County. In 1859 […]
The county was formed in 1750 from Bladen County. It was named for George Anson, Baron Anson, a British admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty. Like its parent county Bladen, Anson County was originally a vast territory with indefinite northern and western boundaries. Reductions […]
The county was formed in 1859 from the eastern part of Ashe County, North Carolina. It was named for the Alleghany River. The word Alleghany comes from the Delaware Indian language meaning “a fine stream”. Numerous boundary adjustments have been made since it was established, but none have resulted in new counties. The area was […]
The county was formed in 1847 from parts of Caldwell County, Iredell County, and Wilkes County. It was named for William Julius Alexander of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons. Taylorsville is the county seat of Alexander County. It’s unclear if Taylorsville was named for President Zachary Taylor or […]
The area that is now Alamance County was originally inhabited by several indian tribes. The first permanent European settlements occurred in the mid 1700s. The county itself was formed in 1849 from Orange County. It was named after Alamance Creek, site of the Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771), in which militia under the command […]
Each of North Carolina’s 100 counties will have a page with relevant links to either Historical or Genealogical societies within the county, or the address (web or otherwise) of the courthouse. Many counties also have links to other genealogy resource information such as census data, marriages, other useful sites, etc. Alamance Alexander Alleghany Anson Ashe […]