{"id":15501,"count":1,"description":"Alamance is a village in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 310 at the 2000 census. The current (2008) estimated population is 357.\nAlamance played a significant role in the development of the textile industry in the South. In 1837 Edwin Michael Holt, son of a local farmer, built the Alamance Cotton Mill at Alamance. Holt's mill produced the well-known 'Alamance Plaids,' the first factory-dyed cotton cloth produced south of the Potomac. The Holt family subsequently built scores of mills across the state, as well as becoming involved in banking, railroads, politics and other ventures.\nAlamance is located at 36\u00b01\u203240\u2033N 79\u00b029\u203220\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff36.02778\u00b0N 79.48889\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 36.02778; -79.48889 (36.027672, -79.488863).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8\u00a0km), of which, 0.7 square miles (1.8\u00a0km) of it is land and 1.37% is water.\nAs of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/alamance\/","name":"Alamance","slug":"alamance","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/15501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=15501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}