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History · Alamance · established 1837
189 years of Alamance, in picturesPostcards, papers and photographs of Alamance from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
1837 established
6 old photos & papers
2 historic places
From Alamance’s archive · credits on each photo What stands out about Alamance’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The story How Alamance came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Alamance.
Read it all → Alamance was the site of the largest conflict of the War of the Regulation on May 16, 1771. Governor William Tryon's decisive victory over a force of 2,000 Regulators effectively ended the war (Battle of Alamance). The region around Alamance was also the site of a defeat of British Loyalists in the American Revolutionary War in a skirmish known as Pyle's Massacre on February 25, 1781.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
At a glance
Established 1837
Half its homes built before 2001
Oldest landmark with a date L. Banks Holt House, 1870
Oldest item in the archive 1943
People in 2020 988 The houses today → By decade Alamance, decade by decade One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1950s–1990s nothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these years Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view Burlington, North Carolina, 1943 Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Alamance’s page.
Retake this view · +15 On the National Register 2 historic places in Alamance The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
19
each building in a district counts
first listed
1977
L. Banks Holt House
in North Carolina
#187
by listings
Architectural styles listings Italianate Revival 1
Two-story Mill House 1
One-story Mill House 1
Bungalow/Craftsman 1
All 2 listings National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people Famous people close to Alamance Nobody well known was born in Alamance itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
See all → Help out Finish Alamance’s story Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Alamance? → Who remembers Alamance in the 1950s? → A family story from old Alamance → Does anyone have photos of Alamance from the 1990s? →
From the Library of Congress (6), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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