NC Gazetteer

Scotland Neck

A neck in Halifax County
… a name formerly applied to a tract of land approx. 40 sq. mi. in area in SE Halifax County. It lay E of Kehukee Swamp and W of Roanoke River and extended S through the present Buzzard Point. It was settled in 1722 by Scottish colonists. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, and the Price map, 1808.