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:

    “I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,—if ten honest men only,—ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)