Alamance County North Carolina Genealogy

1700	John Lawson, Surveyor General for His Majesty's Providence of North Carolina traversed the region populated with Indian tribes and plenteous with game.
1710	The bloody Indian Wars reached the region and death and emigration reduced the Indian population
1720	The first settlers come to the Haw River country. The Indians were no longer in the region.
1745	Adam Trollinger erected a grist mill on the banks of the Haw River. He also founded the town of Haw River.
1753	Dixon's Grist Mill built in Snow Camp. Used as headquarters for General Cornwallis during the Revolutionary War.
1765	Colonists refused to let His Majesty's warship Diligence land with stamp (tax) paper, a resistance which led to the Battle of Alamance.
1767	Regulators formed.
1771	Battle of Alamance. Local homesteaders, angry at British tyranny, repelled the militia of Governor William Tryon, but ran out of ammunition and had to retreat.
1837	E.M. Holt built South's first plaid-dyeing cotton mill on Alamance Creek. The early beginnings bolstered the post-was economy and it progressed to become the textile center of the entire Southern Region.
1849	Alamance County founded.
1850	North Carolina Railroad began construction of a line through Alamance County.
1851	Graham incorporated.
1853	General Benjamin Trollinger bought land options and put together the real estate for the Company Shops headquarters of the NC Railroad Company. The town took the same name.
1854	Mebane settled.
1857	The village of Company Shops had grown to 27 buildings.
1866	Burlington chartered as "Company Shops".
1881	Mebane incorporated as Mebanesville.
1887	Town name "Company Shops" changed to Burlington.
1889	Elon College founded.

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