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- Alamance Plaid
- Alamance Plaid was one of the signature fabrics produced by Alamance Cotton Mill in Alamance County, North Carolina. The plaid was one of the first colored fabrics produced commercially in the Southern United States. This example is from the first generation...
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- Alamance County Historical Museum
- Learn about the history of Alamance County on a field trip to this museum.
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- Alamance Battleground
- A brief account of the Battle of Alamance and details on visiting the historical site
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- Alamance Cotton Mill
- Alamance Cotton Mill, as it appeared in 1837 shortly after construction. The mill was built by Edwin M. Holt, a pioneer of the Southern textile industry.
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- Voter registration cards
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.8
- Copy of a 1902 voter registration card issued in accordance with the "suffrage amendment" of 1899. Includes historical commentary.
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- Colonial food items
- This photograph from the Alamance Battleground Historic Site in Alamance County, N.C. shows colonial-era tools for food preparation and articles of food that were important in the colonial era. These include a bowl of coffee beans, a wooden and metal hand-mill,...
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- Side view of Allen House
- Side view of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., showing the back porch, cellar door, and stone chimney.
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- Allen House
- The Allen House, a log home occupied by John Allen and his family in the late 1700s. Allen built the house for his family around 1780 near Snow Camp, North Carolina, in Alamance County. In 1967 the house was donated to the state and was moved to Alamance Battleground....
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- Colonial candle-making demonstration
- At the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., a colonial re-enactor dips a wick into a pot of hot wax to make candles.
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- Outside wall at Allen House
- This photograph of an outside wall of the Allen House, built around 1782 in Alamance County, N.C., shows its wood and mud construction. Ax marks in the wood suggest how the beams were cut.
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- Colonial table at Allen House
- Wooden colonial-era table at the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C.
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- Fireplace tools at Allen House
- Fireplace tools hanging in the fireplace of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., where John and Rachel Allen lived with their family in the late 1700s. The tools hang from a wooden beam on the stone wall of the fireplace.
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- Allen House cellar door
- Photo of the cellar door at the Allen House in Alamance County, North Carolina.
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- A monument at the Alamance Battleground
- This is a monument at the Alamance Battleground in Alamance County, North Carolina.
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- Colonial weaving loom
- Taken at the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., this photograph shows the kind of loom that was used to weave cloth in the colonial era.
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- Outside wall and ceiling beams at Allen House
- This photograph of an outside wall of the Allen House, built around 1782 in Alamance County, N.C., shows its wood and mud construction. Ceiling beams, fitting into notches in the outer wall beams, can be seen protruding from the wall.
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- Close-up view of fireplace at Allen House
- Close-up of the fireplace in the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., where John and Rachel Allen lived with their family in the late 1700s. On the floor of the fireplace, two andirons stand in the ashes holding a log. To the right of the andirons, a kettle...
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- Firing an 18th-century cannon
- Reenactors fire an eighteenth-century cannon at Alamance Battleground. The cannon is typical of the artillery used by Governor Tryon's troops during the Battle of Alamance in 1771.
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- Cannon at Alamance Battleground
- A cannon sits in the grass at Alamance Battleground Historic Site in North Carolina, illustrating the kinds of weapons used during the 1764–1771 uprising of the Regulators against the colonial government in the state.
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- Smokehouse at Allen House
- Log smokehouse behind the Allen House in Alamance County, North Carolina.
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