Rennert

… community in N Robeson County. Inc. 1895; charter repealed 1947. Known as McAlpin's Grove until the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was constructed; the name was then changed, probably to honor someone connected with the railroad. James McAlpin, for whom the community was first named, is said to have been a Scottish officer in the British army during the American Revolution. After the war, he remained in North Carolina, taking an oath of allegiance to the United States and becoming a schoolteacher in the community that came to bear his name.