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Aberdeen
The history of Aberdeen parallels the history of the
railroad in Moore County and the entrepreneurs and tycoons behind it.
Formerly known as "Blue's Crossing," the town was renamed
Aberdeen in 1887.
The Aberdeen Historic District was
dedicated in the 1980s and currently encompasses 88 acres and more
than 100 historic buildings dating from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. |
Cameron
The town of Cameron is also rooted along the lines of
the railroad. This place where the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad
ended was appropriately named for a railroad official.
Once a bustling commercial center with
many mercantile stores, a carriage works, millstone company, six
turpentine distilleries, a winery, hosiery mill and healthy dewberry
industry, Cameron is now known for its thriving main street of antique
stores. |
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Eagle
Springs
Settled in 1890, Eagle Springs sits deep in
peach-growing country and took its name from a spring at neighboring
Eagle Branch. |
Foxfire
Early settlers called the area now known as the
Village of Foxfire "Piney Bottom". It was the site of a
Revolutionary War skirmish between the Tories and the Whigs.
Development into a resort and
residential community began in 1967, and Foxfire was incorporated as a
village in 1977. |
High
Falls
Nestled in the hills of northern Moore County, the
area now known as High Falls was called "Great Falls" by
early Indians because of the 15-foot falls on the Deep River. In
the 1780s, it was known as William England's Mill, for a successful
gristmill, which ran there for many years.
Later the home of High Falls
Manufacturing Co., High Falls is currently a rural, residential
community. |
Lakeview
The history of Lakeview began in 1770, with the
arrival of Duncan C. Blue, who had been granted 50 acres of land and a
100-acre lake by George III of England. The Blue family kept
the land for three generations.
Lakeview opened as a resort in 1903 and
is now a comfortable residential area. |
Pinebluff
Peter Blue, an immigrant from Scotland, settled
Pinebluff. He raised cattle, grew tobacco and dealt in
racehorses. His land later passed to Luther C. Speare, who sold
772 acres to John T. Patrick, the founder of Southern Pines, in 1884.
Patrick's plan was to develop his town into a resort that would
attract settlers and businessmen from the North.
The area now flourishes as a
residential community. |
Village
of Pinehurst
Bostonian James W. Tufts made millions as a
manufacturer of soda fountain equipment, but his greatest achievement
began with a plan to bring chilled Northerners south to escape cold
weather. Buying 5,000 acres from Henry A. Page of Aberdeen for
the then-outrageous price of $1 per acre, Tufts commissioned the
designer of New York City's Central Park, Frederick L. Olmstead, to
design a town based on the theme of a New England village.
Tufts began his long association with
golf course designer Donald Ross in 1900, and the rest, as they say,
is history. |
Robbins
From Mechanic's Hill, to Elise to Hemp, the northern
Moore County town known since 1943 as Robbins has been home to such
varying enterprises as a gun works, a gold-mining community and a
railroad center. Also hometown of U.S. Senator John Edwards and
NASA Astronaut Dr. Charles Brady.
A Russian immigrant, Karl Robbins,
changed the area with largesse from his successful textile mill.
Robbins donated playground equipment, built tennis courts, assisted in
church building programs and used his influence to get roads built and
the telephone system updated. |
Seven
Lakes/West End
So named because, in 1890, it was the farthest extent
of the railroad from Aberdeen, West End is the home of Stanley
Furniture, one of the largest employers in Moore County.
The adjacent Seven Lakes is a
residential community built around seven spring-fed lakes. |
Southern
Pines
John T. Patrick began the town of Southern Pines by
buying 675 acres of land in 1883 for $1,265. He laid out the
town in square blocks and named the streets for northern states in
hopes of attracting visitors from the North.
By the time of his death in 1916,
Southern Pines had become a successful town that would later become
known for the literary figures, Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald
among them, attracted by novelist James Boyd and his gracious estate,
Weymouth. |
Taylortown
An unincorporated community until 1987, Taylortown was
developed in the early 1900s by Dumas and Robert Taylor as the home of
the work force for Pinehurst's hotels and golf courses. The town
was named in their honor. |
Vass
As with most of southern Moore County, the area now
known as Vass was settled by Scotsmen, the first arriving around 1877.
Originally known as Bynum, for an early
settler, the town later became Winder, for Major Winder, an official
with the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad. It became Vass in 1907,
in honor of Major William Worrell Vass, a paymaster for the Raleigh
and Gaston Railroad. |
Whispering
Pines
Now a pleasant golfing community, Whispering Pines was
settled more than 200 years ago on a land grant from the king of
England.
In 1959, Lexington high school teacher
A.B. Hardee, who sold real estate in the summers, bought more than 400
acres with the idea of developing it into a private golf course and
residential community. There are now two semi-private golf
courses and six lakes surrounded by residences. Whispering Woods
and Whispering Winds are part of the village of Whispering Pines. |
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