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WELCOME! My name is Diane Siniard and I am the interim county coordinator for Alexander County's NCGenWeb page. This county is up for adoption! Please contact Diane Siniard if you are interested in hosting this county. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or suggestions. There is a search engine available for this site. It is located on the home page for your convenience! Please check under the "What's New?" link for new items that have been added. I would like to get transcriptions of cemeteries, birth, marriage, and death certificates, photos and anything else you feel may benefit other researchers. Alexander was formed in 1847 from Iredell, Caldwell and Wilkes counties. It was named in honor of William J. Alexander of Mecklenburg County, several times a member of the Legislature and speaker of the House of Commons. Alexander County is located in the foothills of the Brushy Mountains in western North Carolina. It is bordered on the south by the Catawba River and Catawba County, on the west by Caldwell County, on the north by Wilkes County and on the east by Iredell County. Taylorsville, incorporated in 1851, is the county seat of Alexander County. Primary industry includes agriculture, furniture, and textiles. In 2003, the county celebrated its 156th birthday. The Emerald Hollow Gem Mine in Hiddenite is a favorite for rock hounds from throughout the nation. Precious stones and gems such as emeralds, sapphires, garnets, smoky quartz, tourmaline, clear quartz, aquamarine, sillimanite, monazite and rutile may be found at the mine. Linney's Mill is one of the few fully operational and producing mills in existence in North Carolina. You can see the mill operate and make purchases from the Mill Store. Linney’s Mill has been producing corn meal with water-wheel powered grinding stones for about 67 years. W.L.Linney built a dam and installed the waterwheel on Rocky Creek in 1937.
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We could really use your help with one of these projects, or some of the others that we have going. Won't you volunteer today? Alexander County Project Volunteers: Coordinator and webmaster: Diane Siniard Cemetery Transcription Project: Won't you volunteer? Cemetery Photos Project: Won't you volunteer? Cemetery Location Project: Won't you help? Census Transcription Project: Won't you volunteer? Deed Transcription Project: Won't you volunteer? Transcribers for Various Projects: Won't you volunteer? Great info to help answer your questions on research! This page will have direct links to everything new that has been posted as soon as the site is indexed (It is dated so if what I have added today isn't linked give the site time to index itself.) Queries and Surnames1898 News Article Published Resources For Sale Published Resources with Lookup Volunteers
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Interesting LinksThis link will take you to a page to research Church locations, transcriptions of Church records and where to go to find archives and information on the Church of your choice. Alexander County Schools Mystery Pictures
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Alexander County Site last updated-- Tuesday, 19-January-2010 15:27 EST
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