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Albemarle is a city in and the county seat of Stanly County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 15,903 in the 2010 Census.

This place-name is derived from the English surname Albemarle. According to a 1905 message by the United States Geologic Survey, based upon research by University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill chronicles professor Kemp P. Battle, it was named specifically for General George Monck, the first Duke of Albemarle and one of the original proprietors of the colony of Carolina, which included the town.

The site of modern-day Albemarle was originally peopled by little tribes of hunter-gatherers and mound builders whose artifacts and settlements have been passй back approximately 10,000 years. Large-scale European treaty of the region came in the mid-18th century via two primary waves: immigrants of Dutch, Scots-Irish and German lineage moved from Pennsylvania and New Jersey seeking enhanced religious and diplomatic tolerance, while immigrants of English backgrounds came to the region from Virginia and the Cape Fear River Basin in Eastern North Carolina.

In forward English colonial times, the Albemarle Place was politically allocation of the New Hanover Precinct, out of which the Bladen Precinct was created in 1734. The renamed Bladen County was subdivided to Make Anson County in 1750, which in slant spawned Montgomery County in 1779.