Alleghany County

Alleghany County (also spelled Allegany County and Allegheny County) is the name of two counties in the United States of America:

  • Alleghany County, North Carolina
  • Alleghany County, Virginia

There are three other counties are spelled slightly differently but pronounced the same:

  • Allegany County, Maryland
  • Allegany County, New York
  • Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Famous quotes containing the word county:

    “It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)