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The earliest city directory for Alamance County, North Carolina was published in 1910 by Piedmont Directory Company of Burlington and Asheville, North Carolina. Starting in 1920 these city and business directories continued approximately every two years until the modern day telephone book would replace them. This page provides a listing of online directories for Almance County, North Carolina; while most are available for free, there are some years that I can only locate at Ancestry (1937, 1939, 1941, 1954 and 1957) At the bottom of this page are several church directories independently published, that are viewable online.
Genealogical Research in City Directories
City directories are primarily useful for locating people in a particular place and time. They can tell you generally where an ancestor lived and give an exact location for census years. They are also useful for linkage with sources other than censuses.
There are usually several parts to a city directory. The section of most interest to the genealogist, of course, is the alphabetical listing of names, for it is there that you may find your ancestor. The other parts of a directory are equally important, however, as they will help you utilize the information contained in the alphabetical listings more efficiently. Street directories and ward boundary descriptions can be used for census research. There may also be sections listing government offices, churches, civic and fraternal organizations, and businesses. These sections may be separated or combined.
Whenever you use a directory, however, it is important to refer to the page showing abbreviations used in the alphabetical section of the directory, usually following the name in each entry. Some abbreviations are quite common, such as h for home or r indicating residence. There may even be a subtle distinction between r for residents who are related to the homeowner and b for boarders who are not related. 1)Gordon L. Remington, FASG, FUGA in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, third edition, pp. 330-331.
How to Search Ancestry’s Directories
All Ancestry directories are listed with three dollar signs ($) directly after their title. This helps users who wish to avoid paying for genealogical data, to avoid using these links. Our listings take you straight to the directories at which point you will need to advance alphabetically to the page for your ancestor. If you would prefer to search all Ancestry directories for Alamance County North Carolina, then you should do so from the following link:
This collection was created using a new OCR indexing method that improves searching and results. These records were not transcribed. Don’t forget to place Alamance County, North Carolina in the location field, or you may get many false matches from other locations.
Potential information you may find in a city directory
- An alphabetical listing of inhabitants (arranged by name, address, and occupation).
- A street address listing (arranged by address, name, and occupation).
- Widows, working women, and adult children at home.
- Ward maps.
- Street locator, including cross streets.
- Street name changes.
- Removals (sometimes destinations!).
- Businesses (and index to advertisers).
- Addresses and maps of churches, schools, funeral homes, cemeteries, post offices, courts, hospitals, benevolent associations, newspapers.
- Many early directories listed only business people.
- Some directories list wife in parenthesis.
- Whether a woman is a widow (including name of husband).
- List of marriages and deaths of previous year.
- Death date.
A directory is a book containing one or more alphabetical lists of the inhabitants of any locality, with their addresses and occupations; also a similar compilation dealing with the members of a particular profession, trade, or association, as a Clerical or Medical Directory, etc.2)The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), 393.
Alamance County North Carolina City and Business Directories
- 1909-1910 Directory of Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N.C.
- 1920-1921 Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N.C. City Directory
- 1924-1925 Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N.C. City Directory
- 1927-1928 Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N.C. City Directory
- 1929-1930 Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N.C. City Directory
- Hill’s 1935 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1935 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) city directory
- Hill’s 1935 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Graham, Haw River and Elon College $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Vol. II: Hill’s 1937 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Graham, Haw River and Elon College $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory. - Vol. III: Hill’s 1939 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Graham, Haw River and Elon College $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory. - Vol. IV: Hill’s 1941 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Graham, Haw River and Elon College $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory. - Hill’s 1943 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 5: Hill’s 1943 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol. V: Hill’s 1943 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Graham, Haw River and Elon College $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1946 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 6: Hill’s 1946 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol. VI: Hill’s 1946 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Graham, Haw River and Elon College $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1948 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 7: 1948 Hill’s Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol. VII: Hill’s 1948 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Graham, Haw River and Elon College $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1950-1951 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1950-1951 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 1950-1951: Hill’s Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 8: 1950-1951 Hill’s Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol. VIII: Hill’s 1950-51 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Elon College, Graham, and Haw River $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1952-1953 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 1952-1953: Hill’s Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol. IX: Hill’s 1952-53 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Alamance, Elon College, Glendale, Graham, Haw River and Hopedale $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide and much information of a miscellaneous character: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1954 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Alamance, Elon College, Glendale, Graham, Haw River and Hopedale $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide and much information of a miscellaneous character: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory. - Hill’s 1956 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 1956: Hill’s Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1956 Burlington (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Alamance, Elon College, Glendale, Graham, Haw River and Hopedale $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide and much information of a miscellaneous character: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1957 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Alamance, Elon College, Glen Raven, Haw River and Hopedale $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide, a numerical telephone directory and much information of a miscellaneous character: also the yellow pages with a special advertising section and a complete classified list. - Hill’s 1958 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 1958: Hill’s Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1958 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Alamance, Elon College, Glen Raven, Haw River and Hopedale $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide, a numerical telephone directory and much information of a miscellaneous character: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1959 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 1959: Hill’s Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1959 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Alamance, Elon College, Glen Raven, Haw River and Hopedale $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide, a numerical telephone directory and much information of a miscellaneous character: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1960 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Vol 1960: Hill’s Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1960 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory: Including Alamance, Elon College, Glen Raven, Haw River and Hopedale $
Including an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens, a directory of households, occupants of office buildings and other business places, including a complete street and avenue guide, a numerical telephone directory and much information of a miscellaneous character: also a buyers’ guide and a complete classified business directory.
- Hill’s 1961 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1962 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
- Hill’s 1963 Burlington and Graham (Alamance County, N.C.) City Directory
Alamance County North Carolna Church Directories
- Church year book, history and directory of Stoney Creek (1776), Shiloh (1913), Burlington Second (1913) Presbyterian churches, May 7, 1933
- 1900 Directory of Front Street Methodist Church, Burlington, N.C. : together with general rules of the M.E. Church, South
- 1925 Directory of the First Baptist Church of Burlington, N.C. : with brief denominational and local church historical sketches, Articles of Faith and Church Covenant