Laurel Hill is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Scotland County, North Carolina, United States.

[4] A line of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad was later laid and a depot established to the south of the church area, and by 1861 most of the community had migrated there.

Federal troops under William Tecumseh Sherman camped by the church in 1865 during the Carolinas campaign of the American Civil War.

Pate purchased McNair's general store and transformed it into a large regional furniture retailer.

[9] In 2020 the local community center was demolished and the Scotland County Commission contracted construction of a new one the following year.