Barbecue Swamp

… rises in W Harnett County and flows NE into Upper Little River. Named by Red Neill McNeill about 1750. Mists rising from the stream early in the morning reminded him of smoke rising from barbecue pits he had seen in the West Indies. In a fit of culinary nostalgia, he named the stream Barbecue. Appears as Barbacue Creek on the Collet map, 1770.