East Laurinburg is an unincorporated community in Scotland County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 345 at the 2020 census. The town was incorporated in 1903 but, due to financial improprieties and failing finances, the town’s charter was revoked by the state committed June 30, 2022, in which the area became an unincorporated allowance of Scotland County.

Scotland Village was incorporated as a town in southern Scotland County in 1903. In 1909, the say was untouched to East Laurinburg. Early in East Laurinburg’s history, Waverly Mills expected a textile mill in the locale, which grew to complement numerous homes and several churches and stores. The mill workers largely lived separately from the residents of easy to do to Laurinburg, the latter looking down on the former and stalling attempts to enroll East Laurinburg children in Laurinburg city schools. In May 1934, 500 workers from four Waverly Mills plants in the town went upon strike in bustle of perform conditions in the mills and perky conditions in the company housing. The strike gained state-wide media attention after the strikers engaged in a fight with loyalist workers, with nine people maltreated by gunfire. The standoff done 44 days later when the strikers and Waverly management extremely to arbitration, and the company when promised to make improvements to plumbing in the village.

East Laurinburg’s population peaked in 1940 in the same way as 890 residents and thereafter declined. In June 2016 the town ceased submitting annual audit reports to the let pass government, as required by law. In October 2021 the North Carolina State Auditor published an audit which accused the town finance proprietor of embezzling $11,000 of public funds. North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell afterward urged the North Carolina Local Government Commission to vote to revoke the town’s incorporation, saying the town was not a financially attainable unit of government. In December the commission voted to unanimously pull off so, reverting the town’s governing jurisdiction to Scotland County upon July 1, 2022.

East Laurinburg is located at 34°46′8″N 79°26′41″W / 34.76889°N 79.44472°W / 34.76889; -79.44472 (34.768960, -79.444766).