Alamance County History in Photos: Cities & Architecture

Downtown Burlington in September 1935

Faucette Coal Sales beside railroad near Aurora Cotton Mills

Davis Street looking toward First Baptist Church

Corner of Spring St. and Davis St. looking West, 1930s - ish

Visible:

• Efird's Department Store at 108 E. Davis St
• Acme Drugs at 111 E. Davis St
• Raylass Dept. Store at E. Davis & Main St.

Fountain Place Neighborhood in Burlington, NC

  Main Street Looking West in Burlington, NC

Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Burlington, NC

Whitesell's Shoe Shop

Corney D. Whitesell's Shoe Shop.  Born in 1873, Corney established his shoe shop in Burlington in 1896.  This picture shows the first electric shoe repair machine in this area sometime after 1908.  The man on the left is Mr. Whitesell's assistant Mr. Monroe Sullivan.  (photo ID from "In Years Gone By" columns, Burlington Times-News 01/06/1955)

Holt & May Store

1934 Spring St.

1934 Worth St.

Covington Hardware

Original Covington Hardware Building was destroyed by fire on 12/29/1917.  Photo estimated from 1920-1921.

Piedmont Trust Co in Burlington, NC

   Brookwood Neighborhood  in Burlington, NC

First Presbyterian Church in Burlington, NC

Standard Lumber

Standard Realty & Security Company: Standard Lumber Company and Beverly Hills

The Standard Building on North Main Street, was fully occupied by industrial and wholesale concerns; the plant of the Standard Lumber company and homes in Beverly Hills, a development by D. R. and C. C. Fonville.

Looking up N. Main St.

Visible is the:

• Piedmont Hotel at 201 S. Main St.
• Piedmont Cafe at 111 S. Maint St.
• Steve's Cafe 

Ed Thomas pumping station on Hawkins St. City

Burlington Train Station

Can see the same building that is now the Historic Depot

 Alamance County Courthouse in Graham, NC

1924 County Commissioner

Orphanage at Elon, NC  (later Elon Homes for Children)

Elon Administration - WWI era

Village of Alamance Old Steel Bridge

Wheat Grown by William T. Ingle

William T. Ingle owned a large wheat farm in what is now the Circle Drive area.  The Ingle Farm was sold to Central Loan & Trust for development around 1912.

W. Van Montgomery's old home

Eula Dixon house in Snow Camp

Kingsdown Mattress  in Mebane, NC

White Furniture in Mebane, NC

Southern Furniture Company

Operated on N. Anthony Street extension in Burlington during the late 1920s and early 1930s. 

Robert J. Nicholson, whose mailbox is pictured, lived near Webb Avenue extension in that area.

Southern Furniture Company

May Memorial Library - 75th Anniversary photo

May Memorial Library

Inside May Memorial

Graham Library

Mebane Library

North Park Library

Historic Bookmobiles

South Annex Library

Closed 2018 due to water damage

Stainback Store

Stainback Store

Stainback Store