Editing Southern Pines, North Carolina (section)

==History==
Founded as a winter health resort for Northerners,<ref name="SP2040CP">Southern Pines North Carolina 2040 Comprehensive Plan Adopted September 12, 2023, https://www.southernpines.net/DocumentCenter/View/10470/2040-Comprehensive-Plan-printable-version, last accessed November 12, 2023.</ref> land for the establishment of a town was purchased in 1884<ref name="SP2040CP"/> and the town was incorporated on March 7, 1887.<ref name="ATI">An Act to Incorporate the Town of Southern Pines, in Moore county, ratified March 7, 1887, https://www.southernpines.net/DocumentCenter/View/9784/Southern-Pines-Charter-1887-Session-Law-Chapter-159?bidId=, last accessed November 12, 2023.</ref>{{sfn|Southern Pines Comprehensive Long Range Plan|2016|p=B-26}}

As of 1898, it was a [[sundown town]] where African Americans were not allowed to reside or conduct business.<ref>{{cite news |title=State Press |work=The Semi-Weekly Messenger |location=Wilmington, North Carolina |date= November 18, 1898 |page=4 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91068367/1898-11-18/ed-1/seq-4/ |via=Chronicling America |quote=Southern Pines, in Moore County, this state, is a typical northern community. It was built, is settled and is governed by people from the northern and New England states, and it is interesting to know how the negro is treated there. … Southern Pines was founded by eastern capitalists as a resort for invalids and hundreds go there every winter seeking restoration of health. Its founders, notwithstanding their birth-place and traditions, did not allow any sentimental notions about the negroes to enter in their plans. No negro is allowed to live or do business in Southern Pines. They are all congregated in a place called 'Jimtown', and when they visit the town proper, are models of quiet and orderly behavior.}}</ref>

The [[James Boyd House]], [[Shaw House (Southern Pines, North Carolina)|Shaw House]], [[Southern Pines Historic District]], [[Firleigh Farms]], and [[Moore County Hunt Lands and Mile-Away Farms]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20130920.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=September 20, 2013|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties, 9/09/13 through 9/13/13  |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nps1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20140530.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=May 30, 2014|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 5/29/14 through 5/23/14|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> The [[Southern Pines Golf Club]] was founded in 1906.