A 1986 archaeological survey sponsored by Alamance County and the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office with funds from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office covered 1,030 acres and identified sixty-five previously unrecorded archaeological sites. A special treatment on "The Potters of Alamance County" was part of the final report. The Historic Preservation Office statewide inventory contains information on over 350 prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Alamance County.
Alamance County has had a comprehensive county-wide architectural survey, a separate comprehensive survey of Burlington, and a precedent-setting survey of its log buildings which resulted in National Register nominations for individual properties and several historic districts. These surveys were cooperative local-state projects accomplished with grants and staff assistance from the Historic Preservation Office.
Since 1978 Alamance County has received $42,900 in federal subgrants from the Historic Preservation Office for architectural surveys of the county and Burlington and for preparation of numerous National Register nominations. State grant funds totaling $175,500 have gone to the L. Banks Holt House, Capt. White House, McCray School, the Paramount Theater, Preservation North Carolina's Glencoe Mill Village model home rehabilitation, and other local preservation projects.
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
There are fifty-three National Register listings in Alamance County. These include three historic districts in Burlington, two districts in Graham and one in Elon College, two rural textile mill districts, and numerous individual properties across the county.
LOCAL PRESERVATION COMMISSIONS
Alamance County and the city of Burlington are Certified Local Governments. Burlington has a historic preservation commission, the county has a historic properties commission, and Graham has a historic district commission. There are eleven designated landmarks and three locally designated historic districts in the county. The Historic Preservation Office provides preservation planning assistance to these local commissions.
Seven income-producing tax credit projects have been completed in Alamance County at a total construction investment of $10,029,000, including the Alamance Hotel, Atlantic Bank and Trust Building, and the Federal Building, all in downtown Burlington. The Kayser-Roth Building in Burlington is currently undergoing renovation. One residential renovation project has been completed utilizing the new state tax credit for non-income-producing historic structures, and five residences are currently undergoing renovation for the credits. The Historic Preservation Office reviews and provides restoration technical services for all preservation tax credit projects.
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND PUBLICATIONS
The Historic Preservation Office assisted the Alamance County Historic Properties Commission in publishing the results of the architectural survey in Alamance County Architectural Heritage in 1980, and the Burlington Historic District Commission in publishing An Architectural History of Burlington, North Carolina in 1987. The Historic Preservation Office has co-sponsored workshops in Burlington on the historic preservation provisions of the state building code and the historic preservation tax credits. The Historic Preservation Office assisted with a design workshop for the Glencoe Mill and Village in June 1997.
The Historic Preservation Office has provided technical services to numerous restoration and renovation projects including the L. Banks Holt House, the Roche Biomedical Laboratories offices in Burlington, the Alamance County Courthouse, the Burlington Depot, White Manufacturing Co. Building in Mebane, Glencoe Mill Village, and the Capt. James White House in Graham.