NC Gazetteer

Summerville

Also known as: Toomer
A community in Harnett County
… community in central Harnett County served by post office, 1850-1908. The law creating Harnett County in 1855 directed that the first courts were to be held there until a county seat could be est. Continued as seat of government until 1860. First called Toomer for Judge J. D. Toomer (1784-1856).