Population:  541

Form of Government: Mayor and Council

Mayor:  George Erickson

Phone:  (910) 295-5107

Address:  1 Town Hall Dr., 27281

Early settlers of the place now called Foxfire referred to it as “Piney Bottom.” Native Americans once hunted on the sandy ridge that runs through it. 

During the American Revolution, Piney Bottom was the scene of a 1780 skirmish between Tories and Whigs.

The early settlers made their living from the pine forest that grew along the ridge by selling turpentine and construction timbers. Agriculture sprouted in the 20th century, offering plentiful crops of cotton, tobacco, corn, and rye. Vineyards and peach orchards were plentiful. 

The community is named for a ­mysterious luminescence that ­sometimes appears on decaying plants and wood. 

In 1967, Rowland McKenzie began to develop the area, formerly a 2,200- acre farm, into a resort and 

residential community centered on golf. Foxfire Village was incorporated in 1977.