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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alexander County, North Carolina. Official Website Alexander County was chartered in 1847 by the North Carolina General Assembly. The county was named for William Julius Alexander who was a Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons. This Piedmont area was settled primarily by farmers, many of Scots-Irish descent. Adjacent Cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed on April 20, 1778, by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly. It was named for the English political radical John Wilkes, who lost his position as Lord Mayor of the City of London due to his support for the colonists during the American Revolution. One wel...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alleghany County, North Carolina . Official Website The county was formed in 1859 and was named for the Allegheny Mountains. Adjacent Counties Grayson County, Virginia Surry County Wilkes County Ashe County Towns, Townships & Communities Cherry Lane Cranberry Ennice Gap Civil Glade Creek Glade Valley Lau...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Surry County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1771 as part of the British Province of North Carolina. It was named for the county of Surrey in England, birthplace of William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771. Surry County is apparently home to the fictitious community of Mayberry from "T...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yadkin County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1850. It is south of the Yadkin River, for which it was named. Adjacent Counties Surry County Forsyth County Davie County Iredell County Wilkes County Towns, Townships & Communities Arlington | Barney Hill | Boonville | Branon | Brooks' Crossroa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iredell County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1788. It is named for James Iredell, one of the first justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Adjacent Counties Davie County Rowan County Yadkin County Cabarrus County Mecklenburg County Catawba County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davie County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1836 from Rowan County. It was named for William R. Davie, Governor of North Carolina from 1798 to 1799. Adjacent Counties Davidson County Forsyth County Rowan County Yadkin County Iredell County Towns & Communities Advance Bermuda Run Cala...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davidson County, North Carolina. Official Website The original North Carolina county of this name was created in 1786 what was then the far western portion of North Carolina, with its county seat at Nashville and a territory covering most of what is now Middle Tennessee. When Tennessee was established as a separate state in 1796, th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Winston-Salem is the county seat of Forsyth County. The city of Winston-Salem is a product of the merging of the two neighboring towns of Winston and Salem in 1913. Salem The origin of the town of Salem dates to January 1753, when Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg, on behalf of the Moravian Church, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1849 and was named for Colonel Benjamin Forsyth, who was killed in the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties Davidson County Guilford County Davie County Yadkin County Stokes County Rockingham County
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery resides on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. Also known as University of North Carolina Cemetery, this cemetery saw its first burial on September 28, 1789. The cemetery is active at present, though the lots which are vacant now are designated to specific people. Find a Grave "The Old Chapel H...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Orange County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1752 and was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic. Adjacent Counties Durham County Person County Chatham County Alamance County Caswell Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Person County, North Carolina. Official Website Created in 1791, the county was named for Brigadier General Thomas Person, a Revolutionary War patriot, who made significant contributions to Person County and surrounding areas. He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His generous donations were recognized...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caswell County, North Carolina. Official Website Caswell County was formed from a northern portion of Orange County in 1777. The newly formed county was named for Richard Caswell, Governor of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780. Leasburg was the first county seat. In 1792, roughly the eastern half of Caswell County became Person County...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Alamance County, North Carolina. Official Website Alamance County was named after Great Alamance Creek, site of the Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771), a pre-Revolutionary War battle in which militia under the command of Governor William Tryon crushed the Regulator movement. Great Alamance Creek, and in turn Little Alamance Creek, a...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Chatham County, North Carolina. Official Website Some of the first European settlers of what would become the county were English Quakers, who settled along the Haw and Eno rivers. The county was formed in 1771 from Orange County. It had been named in 1758 for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who served as British Prime Minister ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Durham, North Carolina. Durham is the county seat of Durham County in the Piedmont Region on the Eno River. Official Website Wikipedia A railway depot was established on land donated by Bartlett S. Durham in 1849, the namesake of the city. Following the American Civil War, the community of Durham Station expanded rapi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Raleigh, North Carolina. Official Website Raleigh (/ˈrɑːli/; RAH-lee) is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, the 41st-most populous city in the U.S., and the largest city of the Research Triangle metro area. Raleigh is kno...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Durham County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed on April 17, 1881, from parts of Orange County and Wake County, taking the name of its own county seat. Adjacent Counties Chatham County Orange County Wake County Person County Granville County Cities, Towns & Communities Bahama Bethesda Bra...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Vance County, North Carolina. Official Website The Occonacheans Native Americans were the first inhabitants of what became Vance County in 1881. The first white explorer of the region was John Lederer and his Native American guide in 1670. Originally part of colony of Virginia, King Charles of England redrew the colony lines in 166...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Granville County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed by English colonists in 1746 and was named for John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, who as heir to one of the eight original Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, claimed one eighth of the land granted in the charter of 1665. The claim was established as...
Allen C. Perry Family Cemetery resides in Franklinton, Franklin County, North Carolina. This small cemetery has only twelve remaining stones; most of the stones are illegible. The oldest burials trace to the 1840s through the 1930s. Though this family burying ground is inactive, it is well maintained. "This cemetery is on the old Perry farm which, except for the cemetery, was sold in 1910. Alle...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1779 from the southern half of Bute County. It is named for Benjamin Franklin and is a part of the Research Triangle. Adjacent Counties Granville County Halifax County Nash County Vance County Wake County Warren County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nash County, North Carolina. Official Website Nash County was formed in 1777 and was named for American Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Nash, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Germantown that year. Adjacent Counties Franklin County Wake County Halifax County Edgecombe County Wilson County Warren County
Go to Wilson Name study Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilson County, North Carolina. Official Website On February 13, 1855, the North Carolina General Assembly established Wilson County. It was named for Colonel Louis D. Wilson, U.S. Volunteers, who died of fever while on leave from the state senate during the Mexican–American War. Wilson Speedway held 12 NAS...