Red Springs is a town in Robeson County in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

[8] In 1775, McNeill secured a royal land grant from King George III for the area encompassing the eventual town.

[9] The 1795 Mill Prong house was built nearby in Hoke County and uses a Red Springs address.

In the mid-1800s the community served as a summer resort, with visitors attracted to its mineral springs.

[9] A line of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway was laid through the community in June 1884, and at about that time a post office was opened under the name Dora.

[10] Between 1896 and 1915, Red Springs had a military school for boys as well as the Southern Conservatory of Music for girls from all over the country.

In the 1840s, Floral College for young women was established a few miles south of town by a local lawyer, John Gilchrist Jr. of Mill Prong House.

The school operated until the Civil War, reopened afterward, but closed its doors around 1870.

In 1949, led by pitcher Bill Harrington, who would go on to pitch for the big league parent club, the Red Robins won a second title.

[12] Professional baseball returned to Red Springs in 1969 when Red Springs Twins played, as the Minnesota Twins organization moved its Class A franchise from Wilson, N.C. During the year the club drew more than 40,000 fans and were managed by Tom Umphlett, a former major leaguer and North Carolina native.