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ALLEGHANY COUNTY

County History: Founded 1859. Derived from Ashe County. The name is said to be from the Delaware Indian word for "fine stream". On the Virginia border, the county is the headwaters for the New River. Surnames often found in this county are: Allen, Bryant, Byrd, Choates, Cox, Crouse, Doughton, Gambill, Halsey, Jones, Osborne, McMillan, Pennington, Simmons, Tolliver and Wyatt


Population:
(U.S. Census)
1900 7,759
1920 7,403
1940 8,341
1960 7,734
1980 9,587
2000 10,677
Description:
Bibliography:
Hometown memories-- outhouse spiders and tin tub baths : tal compiled and edited by Bob Lasley and Sallie Holt : , , ASU   c2004
Strings of life : conversations with old-time musicians from Kevin Donleavy : , , , , ASU, UNCA, WCU   c2004
The cabin below : seventh month, fifteenth day : , , ASU   c2002
The people of the New River : oral histories from the Ashe, [compiled] by Leland R. Cooper and Mary Lee Cooper : , , , , ASU, UNCA, WCU   c2001
[Indexes for G.P. Stout's historical maps of Western North C : , , ASU   2000
Alleghany County heritage Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society, Inc : , , , ASU, WCU   1983
Alleghany architecture : a pictorial survey, Alleghany Count Jean Sizemore, principal investigator ; photography by Brant : , , ASU   c1983
Alleghany County, N.C. 1982 roads drawn by G.P. Stout : , , ASU   1982
History of Alleghany County, 1859 through 1976, Sparta, Nort : , , ASU   1976
Alleghany County, N.C. 1974 roads drawn by G.P. Stout : , , ASU   c1974
Alleghany County, N.C. 1974 roads drawn by G.P. Stout : , , ASU   c1974
Joe Caudill : traditional fiddler from Alleghany County, Nor by Thomas Robert Carter : , , ASU   1973
North Carolina county records : core collection. [microform] : , WCU    
Carl Ross papers 1906-1988 : , , ASU