Albemarle, North Carolina Albemarle, North Carolina Albemarle (/ lb m rl/) is a small town/city and the governmental center of county of Stanly County, North Carolina. The populace was 15,903 in the 2010 Census.

1.3 Establishment of Stanly County and Albemarle The site of modern-day Albemarle was originally citizens d by small tribes of hunter-gatherers and mound builders whose artifacts and settlements have been dated back nearly 10,000 years.

Large-scale European settlement of the region came in the mid-18th century via two major waves: immigrants of Dutch, Scots-Irish and German descent moved from Pennsylvania and New Jersey seeking enhanced theological and political tolerance, while immigrants of English backgrounds came to the region from Virginia and the Cape Fear River Basin in Eastern North Carolina.

In early English colonial times, the Albemarle region was politically part of the New Hanover Precinct, out of which the Bladen Precinct was created in 1734.

The retitled Bladen County was subdivided to problematic Anson County in 1750, which in turn spawned Montgomery County in 1779.

Establishment of Stanly County and Albemarle The Albemarle region's first postal service was established in 1826; it was then known as Smith's Store.

The region remained part of Montgomery County until 1841, when after years of attempted separation, prominent inhabitants of the increasingly crowded areas west of the Yadkin/Pee Dee River fitness successfully petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly for the establishment of Stanly County as an autonomous entity.

Soon after the new county was formed, its Board of Commissioners was tasked with establishing a permanent governmental center of county within eight miles (13 km) of the home of Eben Hearne (the County's first sheriff), and with laying out a new town, in which a courthouse would be erected. Nehemiah Hearne's heirs donated 51 acres (210,000 m2) from his plantation near the intersection of the Old Turnpike and Old Stage Roads for the assembly of the new County Seat.

The City of Albemarle was formally incorporated in 1857.

The town was titled for Albemarle County, the first county established in North Carolina, which was in turn titled for the Duke of Albemarle, George Monck, one of the Lords Proprietors granted the province of Carolina in 1663 by King Charles II.

The Albemarle region's early economic expansion was fueled by agriculture (with cotton as the major crop), county-wide mercantile trade and a short-lived gold rush in the close-by Uwharrie Mountains, all later supplanted by textile manufacturing.

(later American and Efird Mills) opened its first foundry in Albemarle in 1896, and was followed soon after that by the Wiscasset Mill Company, the Cannon Mill Company, the Lillian Knitting Mill and others.

In 1899, Wiscassett Mills Company established Cabarrus Bank and Trust, the first bank in Albemarle.

The WSS still provides freight service through Albemarle, but since 1933 there has been no passenger service to the city.

The railbed of the Yadkin Railroad has been ripped up and paved over, though a one-mile (1.6 km) segment of its route south of Albemarle now serves as a hiking trail in Rock Creek Park.

In 1923, a state contract was let to construct NC-24/27 to Charlotte, the first paved highway out of Albemarle.

In 1950, Stanly County Memorial Hospital opened on territory donated by Wiscassett Mills.

Albemarle was recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as a National Main Street City in 1993.

There are a number of historic preservation and adaptive reuse projects in its downtown that have been recently instead of or are underway, including an initiative to problematic a greenway linking many of the City's parks and historic sites.

The Freeman-Marks House, probably assembled amid the 1820s, is the earliest known surviving home in Albemarle.

It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, along with the Romanesque Revival Opera House/Starnes Jewelers Building (1908) and three small historic districts in the city's downtown area.

"Buck" Snuggs House, an antebellum home on Third Street then owned and now titled for a Stanly County sheriff who lost his leg in the Civil War Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

The Stanly County Museum in Albemarle provides a focal point for county-wide historic research and preservation.

The Albemarle Graded School-Central Elementary School, Thomas Marcellus Denning House, Downtown Albemarle Historic District, Five Points Historic District, Opera House-Starnes Jewelers Building, Pee Dee Avenue Historic District, Second Street Historic District, and Isaiah Wilson Snugs House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Albemarle has a total region of 15.8 square miles (41 km2), of which, 15.7 square miles (41 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.44%) is water.

Albemarle is positioned in the Floyd Church Formation of the Carolina Slate Belt.

Albemarle's Parks and Recreation Department was established in 1963.

The newest facility under the Department's purview is City Lake, a 75-acre (300,000 m2) park on a 100-acre (0.40 km2) lake that was opened in 2003, joining Rock Creek Park, Chuck Morehead Memorial Park, Roosevelt Ingram Memorial Park and Don Montgomery Memorial Park.

Morrow Mountain State Park is a large state park positioned east of the city.

Albemarle High School Albemarle and its environs are served by the Stanly News and Press, which was established in 1880 and is presently owned by Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.

Albemarle is also inside the outer coverage and bringy region of the Charlotte Observer Albemarle and Stanly County are served by two small-town airways broadcasts, WSPC at 1010 AM with a news/talk format, and WZKY at 1580 AM with an oldies music format.

Television stations available are from the Charlotte Designated Market Area, which Stanly County and Albemarle are a part of.

Denico Autry, football defensive end for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL; he attended Albemarle High School Woody Durham, radio play-by-play announcer for the Carolina Tar Heels; started his radio longterm position at airways broadcast WZKY 1580 AM in Albemarle Mc - Lendon, football running back, holds a several national high school records; starred for the North Carolina State Wolfpack; played at Albemarle Senior High School Kellie Pickler, 2006 American Idol contestant; nation recording artist; three-time Stanly County AIDS Rodeo for Charity Champion (2002-2004); Season 16 winner of Dancing with the Stars (2013) National Park Service (2010-07-09).

"National Register of Historic Places Listings".

Albemarle High School Municipalities and communities of Stanly County, North Carolina, United States

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