- Overhills, North Carolina
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Overhills is an unincorporated community located in the Johnsonville Township of Harnett County near the Cumberland County town of Spring Lake. The community was originally a 20,000-acre (81 km2) estate owned by the Percy Rockefeller family but later acquired by the federal government and is now mostly located inside nearby Fort Bragg (Powell 1968, p. 87). A Donald Ross-designed golf course was part of the original estate and is also now located inside Fort Bragg. Other area landmarks include Overhills High School.
References
- Powell, William S. (1968), The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1
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Coordinates: 35°13′16″N 79°01′54″W / 35.2209940°N 79.0316947°W
Municipalities and communities of Harnett County, North Carolina City Towns Angier | Broadway‡ | Coats | Erwin | Lillington
Townships Anderson Creek | Averasboro | Barbecue | Black River | Buckhorn | Duke | Grove | Hectors Creek | Johnsonville | Lillington | Neills Creek | Stewarts Creek | Upper Little River
CDP Unincorporated
communitiesAnderson Creek | Barbecue | Barclaysville | Bunnlevel | Cape Fear | Chalybeate Springs | Cokesbury | Duncan | Fonville | Johnsonville | Harnett | Kipling | Luart | Mamers | Olivia | Overhills | Pineview | Rawls | Ryes | Seminole | Shawtown | Spout Springs | Turlington
Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
Categories:- Populated places in Harnett County, North Carolina
- Unincorporated communities in North Carolina
- North Carolina geography stubs
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