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Southern Pines is a town in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 12,334 as of the 2010 United States Census. History.
Southern Pines Historic District is a national historic district located at Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 490 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the town of Southern Pines.
Located near Southern Pines, North Carolina, it covers 915 acres (3.70 km 2) [1] in the Sandhills region of the state. Weymouth Woods is the location of the oldest known longleaf pine tree on record, a tree that was cross-dated at 458 years old. [2]
Moore County has many golf resorts in the Southern Pines/Pinehurst area, and hosted the 1996 and 2001 Women's U.S. Opens, as well as the 1999 and 2005 Men's U.S. Opens. The Women's Open returned to Southern Pines in 2007. In 2014, they consecutively hosted both the Women's and Men's Opens in the same year, a first in U.S. Open history. [13]
US 1 follows a partially controlled-access expressway though Southern Pines, bypassing the downtown area. After North May Street, it becomes a brief four-lane arterial before returning to a partially controlled-access expressway after Aiken Road. It bypasses the small towns of Vass and Cameron, where it crosses NC 690 and NC 27, respectively.
1952: NC 22's southern end is aligned to its current ending in Southern Pines. 2004: NC 22 is shortened just west of 421 to NC 62 in Climax. Apparently, I-85 's relocation to the new southern Greensboro bypass cut off NC 22 from US 421.
For several years in the late 2010's-early 2020's, the Pinehurst-Southern Pines area was continuously ranked by POLICOM as the best micropolitan area to live in North Carolina, and a top ten micropolitan area nationwide. [14] Contributing factors included the quality of local amenities, as well as the strong medical and golf tourism industries.
The new routing brought NC 2 along Yadkin Road, further to the north of downtown Southern Pines. The former alignment into downtown became part of NC 22, however currently exists only as a secondary road. [7] [8] [9] In 1957, NC 2 was extended west to NC 211 (present-day NC 5) in southern Pinehurst. The new routing followed along the roads ...