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:
“Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)