A PROSPECTUS

Anderson, Lucy. N. C. Women of the Confederacy; Fayetteville, 1926.

Arthur, J. P. Western North Carolina 1730-1913; Raleigh, 1914.

Ashe, Samuel A'Court. History of North Carolina; v. I, Greensboro, 1908; v. 2, Raleigh, 1925.

—Biographical History of N. C., Raleigh, 1908.

Attmore, William. Journal of a Tour to North Carolina, 1787; reprinted, Chapel Hill, 1922.

Bartram, William. The Travels of William Bartram, Philadelphia, 1791.

Bernard, John. Retrospections of America; New York, 1887.

Boyd, Thomas. Lighthorse Harry Lee; New York, 1931.

Boyd, William K.. William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line; Raleigh, 1929.

Brickell, John. The Natural History of North Carolina, Dublin, 1773.

Brown, Cecil K. A State Movement in Railroad Development; Chapel Hill, 1928.

Caruthers, E. W. Revolutionary Incidents, Philadelphia, 1854.

Coon, Charles L. North Carolina Schools and Academies; Raleigh, 1915.

Fitch, William E. Some Neglected History of North Carolina; New York and Washington, 1905.

—The Battle of Alamance; Burlington, 1939.

Foote, William H. Sketches of North Carolina; New York, 1846.

Fries, Adelaide L. Road to Salem; Chapel Hill, 1944.

Grissom, W. L. History of Methodism in North Carolina; Nashville and Dallas, 1905.

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Hamilton, J. G. Reconstruction in North Carolina, New York.

Lawson, John. History of North Carolina, Dublin, 1711; reprinted, Charlotte, 1903.

Lazenby, Mary E. Herman Husband, A Story of His Life; Washington, 1940.

Lederer, John. The Discoveries of John Lederer, London, 1672; reprinted, Charleston, 1891.

Moore, John W. History of North Carolina; Raleigh, 1880.

Paschal, G. W. History of North Carolina Baptists, v. 1, Raleigh, 1930.

Wheeler, John H. Historical Sketches of North Carolina; Philadelphia, 1851.

Welker, George W. Historic Sketch of the Reformed Church; Philadelphia, 1908.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Beecher, George. Science and Change in Alamance County Life; mimeographed manuscript in University of North Carolina Library; Elon College, 1938.

—et. al. Investigation of Local Resources in Alamance County; mimeographed manuscript in University of North Carolina Library; Graham, 1939.

Colonial Records of North Carolina, edited by Saunders, W. L.

Ferguson, Clyde V. Educational Growth in Alamance County; graduate thesis, typewritten manuscript; University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, 1933.

Harden, John. Alamance County. Economic and Social; University Extension Bulletin, Chapel Hill, 1928.

Holt, Edwin M. Occasional Diary; typewritten manuscript, University of North Carolina Library.

Mooney, James K. Siouan Tribes of the East; Smithsonian Institute bulletin, Washington, 1894.

State Records of North Carolina, edited by Clark, Walter.

Stockard, Sallie W. History of Alamance; graduate thesis, printed; Raleigh, 1900.

Swanton. Indians of the Southeastern United States; Smithsonian Institute bulletin, Washington, 1946.

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Alamance Gleaner files; Gleaner office in Graham or University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill. An excellent chronology of events in Alamance County since 1879.

Burlington Times-News files; Times-News office, Burlington. Complete from 1932 to the present date, this file contains the best account of events in the county during this period. Note also feature stories on county history.

Durham Morning Herald files; Herald office, Durham. Sunday editions frequently contain features on Alamance County.

Greensboro Daily News files; News office, Greensboro. Sunday editions contain features on Alamance County, and the weekday editions carry news stories on Alamance since the early part of this century.

Hillsboro Recorder files; University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill; a chronology of the early development of Alamance County from 1822.

Mebane Enterprise files; Enterprise office, Mebane. Contains material similar to that found in the Gleaner.

Raleigh News and Observer, Observer office, Raleigh. Special editions on the State, Industry, Agriculture, etc., have featured Alamance County. News stories on Alamance similar to those found in Greensboro News .

Raleigh Register files; University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill; occasional articles on events which took place in Orange and Alamance counties in the early years.

Source materials may also be found in the special historical editions of these newspapers, which are listed in the card catalog of the North Carolina Room, University Library, Chapel Hill.

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Excellent materials may be found in the fiftieth anniversary edition of the Burlington Times-News, July 1, 1937.

The University Library and the May Memorial Library at Burlington have magazine articles referred to in the footnotes of this work.

*The sources listed in this bibliography are the major ones used or consulted in the preparation of this book. The author hopes they will lead the student and the scholar to more intensive research. A number of personal manuscripts, including papers of Dr. Will S. Long, Jr., of Graham, Mr. Walter Sellars of Burlington; and materials in the office of the County Superintendent of Schools, the Archives of the State Historical Commission, Raleigh, the various libraries, and other places, have been used.

THE COVER

The volume you hold in your hands is bound in a fabric manufactured in Alamance county, by tradition, an area that has long been a leader in the production of textiles.

This particular fabric was made in the Plaid Mills Plant of Burlington Mills Corporation. It is produced for men's wear and has received wide utilization and acceptance for men's summer suits.

Burlington Mills began production of this particular fabric in May of 1947. It is known in the company as a plaid "apple-skin" finish fabric. This fabric is made from a continuous filament fast-dyed decorative stripe acetate yarn and an acetate and viscose rayon blend spun yarn for the ground or body weave. As it comes off the loom, the cloth is approximately 44 inches wide and has an average of 52 ends (threads) per inch warp-wise and 82 picks (threads) per inch filling-wise.

This material is a far cry from the original "Alamance plaids" for which this area was famous as far back as pre-Civil War days. It is a modern day version of the latest improved plaid fabric produced in Alamance county.

The material for the binding of this edition of the Alamance County Centennial History was contributed by Burlington Mills Corporation.

"We are presenting these facts about Burlington and. Alamance County at the end of 1948 with the hope that in the future those who are interested may compare the figures and tell the growth of our city and county."

Estimated population of Alamance County—67,000

Total farm land—250,000 acres

Cultivated or cropped land—80,000 acres

Idle, no crops grown—28,200 acres

Pasture open plowable or improved—17,600 acres

Woodland salable wood or timber—94,000 acres

All other land—30,200 acres

All people living on farms—15,300

Corn for all purposes—19,600 acres

Cotton Harvested—235 acres

Tobacco Harvested—6,700 acres

Peanuts grown alone for all purposes—95 acres

Wheat combined or threshed—9,100 acres

Oats Combined or threshed—7,800 acres

Lespedeza harvested for seed—5,400 acres

Soybeans (grown with corn)—385 acres

Soybean and Cowpeas hay—2,470 acres

Hays Harvested:

Potatoes harvested: Irish—260 acres; Sweet—250 acres

Home Gardens (including tenant's)—2,940 acres

Vegetables grown for sale—350 acres

Apple Trees of bearing age—17,900

Commercial Fertilizer reported used—11,200 tons

Livestock and Poultry:

Broilers and fryers reported raised during 1948—60,000

FACTS ABOUT ALAMANCE COUNTY

Marriage licenses issued, 765

White births, 1,360; colored births, 418

White deaths 257; colored deaths, 64.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

COUNTY OFFICIALS

261

Estimated population 27,000

Total Deposits in Burlington, $71,420,864.09

Total Bank Resources, $75,681,556.75

Total Bank Debits for 1948— $248,15 8,170.66

Total Postal Receipts for 1948—$261,347.00

Increase in telephones in service during 1948 over 1947—2,296

Present number of telephones in service—10,996

Total Building permits for 1948—664

Total value for 1948—$2,414,329.50

Electrical connections, 21,822

Total Kilowatt hours, 71,053,808

Gas customers, 1,760

Total cubic feet of gas used, 24,769,000

MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL

BURLINGTON CITY SCHOOL BOARD

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OFFICERS OF BURLINGTON CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE

OF COMMERCE

PERSONNEL OF BURLINGTON CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE

263

CIVIC CLUBS

OFFICIALS OF ELON COLLEGE:

264

POSTMASTERS