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Albemarle County, North Carolina Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine at the USGenWeb Project 36°18′50″N 76°20′24″W / 36.314°N 76.340°W / 36.314; - This North Carolina state location article is a stub .
Albemarle (/ ˈ æ l b ə ˌ m ɑː r l /) is a city in and the county seat of Stanly County, North Carolina, United States. [4] The population was 16,432 in the 2020 census . History
The boundary between Virginia and North Carolina was uncertain until a 1728 survey was done under William Byrd II, described in his book The History of the Dividing Line. Until then, many settlers did not know whether their lands were in Virginia or North Carolina. The Albemarle Settlements came to be known in Virginia as "Rogues' Harbor". [3]
The Museum of the Albemarle is located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.It serves as the northeastern regional branch of the North Carolina Museum of History.This area of North Carolina is sometimes considered the birthplace of English North America, with close proximity to Roanoke Island and the "Lost Colony" of 1585.
The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. [ 2 ] (p. 80) It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies .
Stanly County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,504. [1] Its county seat is Albemarle. [2] Stanly County comprises the Albemarle, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC Combined Statistical Area.
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North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.