Johnsonville

… community in W Harnett County named for Samuel Johnson, early innkeeper there. Surrounding elevated lands first known as Mount Pleasant by Highland Scots who settled there in the 1750s. Name changed later to Camerons Hill for Daniel Cameron, who lived nearby. Afterward changed to its present name. Flora MacDonald, Scottish heroine, lived there, 1774-75. In a mound 4 mi. W are buried over 100 Indians, victims of a massacre shortly before the area was settled by Scots. The mound has been vandalized.