Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Alleghany County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County Information Alleghany Co was established on January 05, 1822 from parts of Botetourt, Bath and Monroe Counties. It was named for the Alleghany Mountains.  During the Civil War, the iron for the Merrimac came from the Longdale Furnace in the county. Regiments from Alleghany County were at the surrender at Appomattox. Alleghany Co is 449 square miles.  Population in 2000 was 12,936 CITIES AND TOWNS Clifton Forge - Iron Gate - Low Moore - Selma Covington, independent city and the county seat, is not part of Alleghany County NATIONAL PROTECTED AREA George Washington National Forest (part) Alleghany County Courthouse 266 West Main Street Covington, VA 24426-0670 Phone: (540) 965-1730 Fax: (540) 965-1732 Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Oct 2012 1883 Roll of Pensioners Jun 2012 Maydian - Deeds Marriage Paul - Davies Marriage Gregory - Loving Marriage Snead - Lyndsay Marriage May 2012 Marriages 1890 Veteran's Census - Bailing Dec 2011 Massie Family Biography Surrounding Counties Bath Co VA - Botetourt Co VA - Craig Co VA Greenbrier Co WV - Monroe Co WV - Rockbridge Co VA Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.