Barbecue is an unincorporated community located in the Barbecue Township of Harnett County, North Carolina.
Barbecue Township was so named because the steam rising from the warm waters of a local creek in the winter reminded early settlers of steam rising from a traditional North Carolina pork barbecue.
An Historian at Barbecue Presbyterian Church, Ms. Cameron, says that a settler to the area named “Red” McNeill saw steam rising from a nearby creek. It reminded him of the meat-cooking pits he had seen in the Caribbean, and he named the creek Barbecue Creek. The name became official in the early 1750s, as settlers began moving into the area.
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