Moss Neck, North Carolina

Moss Neck is a community in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.

[2] It began as a center for turpentine distillation, though as local pine forests were depleted the industry moved south.

[4] A railway station was established, leading to a revitalization of the local community, and it became a center of Lumbee activity.

[7] By 1909, in addition to the railway station, the community hosted several homes, two turpentine distilleries, a water mill, a sawmill, a hotel, a post office, a school, and a Methodist church.

Over the following decades, the community declined as the turpentine industry moved southward and naval stores were supplanted by steel in shipbuilding.