Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
72historic places
—earliest paper
1849formed
171,415pop. 2020
7cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 72 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Burlington, Mebane, Graham.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Alamance County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1850
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
11,444
11,852
14,613
25,665
32,718
57,427
71,220
85,674
99,319
130,800
171,415
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
7 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Alamance Memorial Park
36.08236
-79.53586
Graham Memorial Park
36.04541
-79.37196
Linwood Cemetery
36.06879
-79.39361
Magnolia Cemetery
36.10009
-79.49592
Moores Chapel Cemetery
35.93784
-79.3416
Northlawn Cemetery
36.11541
-79.42447
Pine Hill Cemetery
36.08485
-79.44677
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
HMdb link
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