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Maxton is a town located mainly in Robeson County, North Carolina, with a portion extending into Scotland County, and it was incorporated in 1874.

Maxton began as a railroad depot named Shoe Heel on the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad, which came through in 1862.

In 1887 the town's name was changed to Mack's Town - soon shortened to Maxton - in honor of the many Scottish Mc and Mac surnames in the community.

When the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad connected Maxton with Fayetteville in 1884, the town stood at the junction of two important rail lines and boomed as a mercantile center with a cotton market, supported by the naval stores and lumber industries of the surrounding pine forests.

The Maxton Historic District, with 44 well-preserved commercial buildings, railroad structures, churches, and houses dating from the mid-1880s to the late 1940s, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and is considered one of the most intact turn-of-the-century railroad towns in the Sandhills region.

The 2020 census counted 2,110 people in Maxton, down 13 percent from 2,426 in 2010, spread over about 2.7 square miles.

Charles N. Hunter, the noted African-American educator who went on to found the North Carolina Industrial Association, opened his first school in Maxton.

Carolina College, a Methodist college for women, operated in Maxton from 1912 to 1926; its campus later housed Presbyterian Junior College and then Carolina Military Academy, a boys' military school that operated from 1963 to 1972 before a 1973 fire destroyed its main building.