NC Gazetteer

Foxes Island

Also known as: Fox Island Falls
A island in Harnett County
… central Harnett County in Cape Fear River NW of Lillington. Mentioned in Fulton's survey of North Carolina rivers in 1819 and appears on the MacRae map, 1833. A series of low falls or rapids there, known as Fox Island Falls, drop between 5 and 10 ft. over a distance of about a quarter of a mile.