345
49%
$23,846
2.9%
America/New_York
28352
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East Laurinburg, NC - History
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Welcome to the East Laurinburg Home page. The East Laurinburg Home page provides as much information as possible on East Laurinburg. Knowing East Laurinburg’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within East Laurinburg’s Home page, you will also find East Laurinburg’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
East Laurinburg has a population of 345. 49.9% of East Laurinburg’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.1 are female. 34.8% of East Laurinburg is married and 49.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $32,058, and the average rent is $750. Household median income in East Laurinburg is $23,846, and the individual median income is $14,760. East Laurinburg’s Ethnic is the following: White(62%), Black(25.2%), Native(9.3%), Hispanic(5.2%), Multiple(2.6%), Other(0.9%).
Scotland Village was incorporated as a town in southern Scotland County in 1903. In 1909, the name was changed to East Laurinburg. Early in East Laurinburg's history, Waverly Mills established a textile mill in the locale, which grew to include numerous homes and several churches and stores. The mill workers largely lived separately from the residents of nearby Laurinburg, the latter looking down upon the former and stalling attempts to enroll East Laurinburg children in Laurinburg city schools.
In May 1934, 500 workers from four Waverly Mills plants in the town went on strike in protest of work conditions in the mills and living conditions in the company housing. The strike gained state-wide media attention after the strikers engaged in a brawl with loyalist workers, with nine people wounded by gunfire.
The standoff ended 44 days later when the strikers and Waverly management agreed to arbitration, and the company subsequently promised to make improvements to plumbing in the village.East Laurinburg's population peaked in 1940 with 890 residents and thereafter declined. In June 2016 the town ceased submitting annual audit reports to the state government, as required by law.
In October 2021 the North Carolina State Auditor published an audit which accused the town finance officer of embezzling $11,000 of public funds. North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell subsequently urged the North Carolina Local Government Commission to vote to revoke the town's incorporation, saying the town was not a financially viable unit of government.
In December the commission voted to unanimously do so, reverting the town's governing jurisdiction to Scotland County on July 1, 2022.
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