The first shopping center in Burlingon and Alamance County was Cum-Park Plaza on North Church Street.

Alamance County was created when Orange County was partitioned in 1849.

The local school system is known as the Alamance-Burlington School System, which was created by a merger between the Alamance County School System and the Burlington City School System in 1996.

Public schools in Elon are part of the Alamance-Burlington School System, which was created by a merger between the Alamance County School System and the Burlington City School System in 1996.

Graham was laid out in 1849 as the county seat of the newly formed Alamance County, and was incorporated as a town in 1851 ; it became a city in 1961.

The local school system is known as the Alamance-Burlington School System, which was created by a merger between the Alamance County School System and the Burlington City School System in 1996.

The local school system is known as the Alamance-Burlington School System, which was created by a merger between the Alamance County School System and the Burlington City School System in 1996.

Students in the area are served by part of the Alamance-Burlington School System ( which was created by a merger between the Alamance County School System and the Burlington City School System in 1996 ) and the Orange County Schools.

Drew was taken to Alamance General Hospital in Burlington, North Carolina.

Hooper advised that Governor Tryon use as much force as was necessary to stamp out the rebels, and even accompanied the troops at the Battle of Alamance in 1771.

Rowsey was implicated in the murder of Howard Rue Sikorski, an Alamance County convenience store clerk.

Cary Dale Allred ( February 7, 1947 – December 10, 2011 ) was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixty-fourth House district, including constituents in Alamance County.

Cary Allred was born February 7, 1947 in Mebane, North Carolina, and graduated from Southern Alamance High School in 1965.

Hugh Webster ( born August 6, 1943 ) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-fourth Senate district, including constituents in Alamance and Caswell counties.

Webster was appointed Register of Deeds for Alamance County, North Carolina in 2011.

Holt was also responsible for the technology behind the family's Holt Mills ' Alamance Plaids ,' the first colored cotton goods produced in the South – a development that revolutionized the Southern textile industry.

He was born in Alamance County, North Carolina, July 15, 1831.

Thomas ’ s party affiliation was Democratic, and he served as a local magistrate, a county commissioner, as a member of North Carolina ’ s state senate ( 24th District ) in 1876, as a member of North Carolina ’ s state house of representatives from Alamance County, 1883 – 1887, as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, 1889 – 1891, and upon the death of Governor ( Daniel G. Fowle ), as 47th Governor of North Carolina, 1891-1893.

Just before Raleigh was occupied by Sherman's conquering forces at the end of the war, Governor Zebulon B. Vance charged Worth with the duty of safeguarding the State archives, which he did by evacuating them to Company Shops in Alamance County.

Captain Benjamin Merrill had about 300 men under his control and would have assumed control over military leadership after James Hunter, but he was unable to serve in the Battle of Alamance.

Minor clashes followed for the next several years in almost every western county, but the only true battle of the war was the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771.

In 1837 Edwin Michael Holt, son of a local farmer, built the Alamance Cotton Mill at Alamance.

The oldest remaining house in Lexington is The Homestead, built by Dr. William Rainey Holt ( 1798 – 1868 ), a physician born in what is today Alamance County.

Alamance Cotton Factory, built by Edwin M. Holt, 1837, first manufacturer of colored cotton fabrics in the South on power looms

* May 16 – War of the Regulation: The Battle of Alamance commences after Regulators reject an appeal by Governor Tryon to peacefully disperse.

Both men had Haw River addresses so that the only three governors from Alamance County are claimed by Haw River.

In August 2008, Allred caused a minor local controversy by handing out his legislative cards and state maps at a local Southern Alamance High School football game during his run for the North Carolina Legislature.

Holden had formed the state militia to respond to the assassination of Republican senator John W. Stephens on May 21, 1870 and the lynching of Wyatt Outlaw, an African American police officer in the town of Graham in Alamance County, as well as numerous attacks by the Ku Klux Klan.

This state of affairs finally led to outbreaks of violence in 1770 ( centered in modern day Alamance County ), which had to be put down by Governor William Tryon.

Despite hesitation from his own forces, Governor Tryon allegedly initiated the main battle of Alamance on May 16 by shooting Robert Thompson, who was the first death of the battle.

The Battle of Alamance is also a significant event in the novel The Fiery Cross ( novel ), the fifth book in the Outlander series of novels by author Diane Gabaldon.

After several riots, the movement was crushed by the an army of North Carolina militia led by Tryon at the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771.

* 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The " Regulators ", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.

Tryon's army stops at Alamance Creek, away from the Regulator army.

In Alamance County, the highway is also known as the Sam Hunt Freeway.

In 1849, the western third of the still shrinking county became Alamance County.

Tryon sent troops from his militia to the region and defeated the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance in May 1771.

John Ulrich Giesendanner led his Lutheran congregation from Pennsylvania in 1740, into the part of North Carolina around Haw River, Reedy Fork, Eno River, Alamance Creek, Travis Creek, Beaver Creek and Deep River.

Alamance is a village in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States.

Alamance played a significant role in the development of the textile industry in the South.

Holt's mill produced the well-known ' Alamance Plaids ,' the first factory-dyed cotton cloth produced south of the Potomac.

Alamance is located at ( 36. 027672 ,-79. 488863 ).

Altamahaw-Ossipee is a former census-designated place ( CDP ) in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States.

Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U. S. state of North Carolina.

It is the principal city of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Alamance County, in which most of the city is located.

Alamance County, where Burlington is located, is the site of several skirmishes that were part of the American Revolution.