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With the onslaught of the Civil War, approximately 500 local men left to fight for the Confederate cause.
At its founding, Albemarle had a Methodist church and two saloons.
The influential Hearne family donated 51 acres to the first Commissioners of Stanly County and Albemarle was incorporated in 1857.
George Monck, one of the Lord Proprietors of Carolina, Albemarle is the county seat of Stanly County, located amidst the rolling hills of the North Carolina Piedmont.
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