Information for this chart was taken from various sources, often containing conflicting dates. Some records were lost in a courthouse fire. For more information on extant records, see the following:. For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator.
The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county: [6]. In settlers in what would eventually become Tennessee successfully petitioned North Carolina to recognize the Washington District. Washington old was created from Washington District by North Carolina in as the western county of North Carolina. The Franklin statehood request was denied. By the hopes for a State of Franklin faded. North Carolina refused to recognize several counties created by Franklin out of Washington County.
North Carolina was admitted to the Union in and ceded her western counties to the United States. The United States made these western counties into the Southwest Territory. Men in Alleghany County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company within a regiment that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Alleghany County:.
Listed below are archives in Alleghany County. For state-wide archival repositories, see North Carolina Archives and Libraries. Like the Doughtons, these pioneer families cleared the high land first. The bottoms were too marshy and the first settlers lacked the time and equipment to drain the soil. Alleghany County was formed by an Act of the session of the North Carolina state legislature out of the northeastern portion of Ashe County.
A surveyor was hired to locate the most central location for the county seat, but squabbling over the location and the American Civil War delayed the establishment of a permanent home for county government until In , James H. Parks, David Landreth, and David Evans donated fifty acres of land for the county seat where Sparta is now located. Tradition has it that it was proposed the county seat be named after Parks, but he declined and suggested it be named after the Greek city-state.
Many well-known citizens claim Alleghany County as their home. Representative from to Doughton was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from to and was the major force in the establishment of Social Security and in promoting the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway. In all, thirty-five Alleghany citizens have served as state representatives, and thirteen have served as state senators in the NC General Assembly - a remarkable record for a small, rural mountain county.
Doughton home place mentioned above, and the Elbert Crouse home near the Parkway. Alleghany County, North Carolina. Year Established. The years after the Civil War were difficult, with the Southern economy devastated and so many young men dead or maimed.
Nearly every family in Alleghany County lost a son in the war. In total, about one-third of the military-aged men in North Carolina died in the Civil War, a staggering loss that would be the equivalent of millions of deaths today. Roads deteriorated and people withdrew into their own communities. People began to joke that the only way to get to Alleghany County was to be born there. By the early 20th century, Alleghany had earned a reputation as the "Lost Province" of North Carolina.
This didn't really change until the 's when the Blue Ridge Parkway was constructed, which opened the mountains to jobs and tourists. But Alleghany County had only been "lost" to the outside world. Behind the walls of the mountains, there was a thriving society founded on values of family, religion, hard work, and self-sufficiency. In the census, the total population of white males in North Carolina between the ages of 15 and 39 was , see the Historical Census Browser , an on-line service of the Library of Virginia.
Today, Alleghany County still has few towns of any size, and nothing that would qualify as a city. The county seat, Sparta, had about 1, inhabitants in the year census. Historically, most of the "towns" consisted of little more than a post office with perhaps a church, school, or general store to serve the surrounding farm communtiy. For government purposes, such the census, the county has traditionally been divided into "townships.
Rudersdorf, Amy. The Historical Society website is: ahgs. I am trying to find a list of Doctors that practiced in these areas from about to I know there was a fire at one point burning some of the vital records. Any info would be great! Comments are not published until reviewed by NCpedia editors at the State Library of NC , and the editors reserve the right to not publish any comment submitted that is considered inappropriate for this resource.
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