The Pinehurst/Southern Pines, North Carolina area is a great place for a vacation home!

Pinehurst is a village in Moore County, North Carolina. It is the location of the Pinehurst Resort, venue of the 1999 and 2005 U.S. Open Golf Championships.

Looking for a place with a healthy atmosphere to build a health-orientated resort, James Walker Tufts (head of the America Soda Foundation) stopped in the Sandhills area in the spring of 1895. Despite the fact that the area had been almost completely clear-cut by the timber industry, something about this area moved him, and in June 1895, he bought 598 acres of land for nearly $1.25 per acre around what is now the Village Center.

On June 20, 1895, Tufts contacted Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park in New York and the landscape designer of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, to help him create a first-rate resort. That summer, with the new plan in hand, 450 men began construction on what was originally referred to as "Tuftstown". Tufts selected the name Pinehurst for his resort out of a list of non-winning names for Martha' s Vineyard.  On New Year's Eve 1895, the Holly Inn opened its doors and Pinehurst was on its way.  In 1980, with a population of 1,746 residents, Pinehurst was granted full incorporation as a municipality and was, for the first time, more than just a privately run resort.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pinehurst had a population of 9,706 people in the year 2000, nearly double its population in 1990. Many of these new residents come from across the country, if not the world, to settle in this "village in the forest". When asked what brought them here, many cited ambiance, community character and spirit as their reasons for choosing the area. If the current rate of about 230 new homes being built each year continues on the remaining vacant lots, our population may again double by the year 2020.