Barbecue, North Carolina

Barbecue is an unincorporated community located in the Barbecue Township of Harnett County, North Carolina. It is a part of the Dunn Micropolitan Area, which is also a part of the greater Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA) as defined by the United States Census Bureau.

Trivia

A 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.

See also

• Barbecue Township

Coordinates: 35°20′10″N 79°02′19″W / 35.3359916°N 79.0386362°W / 35.3359916; -79.0386362

Municipalities and communities of Harnett County, North Carolina, United States County seat: Lillington City Dunn Towns Angier Broadway‡ Coats Erwin Lillington CDPs Buies Creek Bunnlevel Mamers Unincorporated communities Anderson Creek Barbecue Barclaysville Cape Fear Chalybeate Springs Cokesbury Duncan Fonville Hairtown Harnett Johnsonville Kipling Luart Olivia Overhills Pineview Rawls Ryes Seminole Shawtown Spout Springs Turlington Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties