Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Robbins, NC

Robbins is a town in northwestern Moore County, North Carolina, on NC Highway 705, the Pottery Highway, near the pottery community of Seagrove.

The town began in 1795, when gunsmith Alexander Kennedy settled along Bear Creek and opened the Kennedy Rifle Works, which produced long rifles for American soldiers until 1838; the settlement was known as Mechanics Hill.

The Durham and Charlotte Railroad reached the community around 1899, and in 1900 the town was laid out and named Elise, in honor of railroad president John B. Lennig's daughter.

Elise Academy, founded in 1904, drew students from other states and countries before it was sold to the Moore County school board in 1940.

Inventor Thomas Edison visited the town in 1890 to take an option on gold mining interests in the nearby Carter's Mill area.

Textile manufacturer Karl Robbins bought the local mill in 1930; the town was renamed Hemp in 1935 and then officially became Robbins in his honor in 1943, by act of the North Carolina General Assembly.

Karl Robbins gave or loaned the first $400,000 to start Research Triangle Park and donated over 4,000 acres to the state for the park's site.

The 2020 census counted 1,168 people in Robbins, living in 526 households, and about half of the town's residents were Hispanic or Latino.

Robbins lost much of its manufacturing base in the 1990s — the Employment Security Commission counted 1,447 jobs lost since 1990 — after employers such as Ithaca Industries, which once employed 1,100 people making women's hosiery, closed or shrank.

Former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards grew up in Robbins, and astronaut Charles E. Brady Jr., who flew on space shuttle mission STS-78, was a native of the town.