Robeson County
| Robeson County, North Carolina | ||
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 Location in the U.S. state of North Carolina |
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 North Carolina's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1787 | |
| Named for | Colonel Thomas Robeson | |
| Seat | Lumberton | |
| Largest city | Lumberton | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 951 sq mi (2,463 km2) | |
| • Land | 949 sq mi (2,458 km2) | |
| • Water | 1.8 sq mi (5 km2), 0.2% | |
| Population | ||
| • (2010) | 134,168 | |
| • Density | 141/sq mi (54/km²) | |
| Congressional district | 9th | |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 | |
| Website | www |
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Robeson County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 134,168. Its county seat is Lumberton. The county was formed in 1787 from part of Bladen County. It was named in honor of Col. Thomas Robeson of Tar Heel, North Carolina, a hero of the Revolutionary War.
Robeson County comprises the Lumberton, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Fayetteville-Lumberton-Laurinburg, NC Combined Statistical Area.
Since 2008, Robeson County has been identified as among the 10% of United States counties that are majority-minority; its combined population of American Indian, African American and Hispanic residents constitute more than 68 percent of the total. Members of the state-recognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, make up most of the 38 percent of the population who identify as Native American.
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke is located in the county. It developed from a normal school established here in the late 19th century for the training of teachers of students classified as Indian, from mixed-race families who had been free before the Civil War. In the late 1880s local state legislator Harold McMillan gained state authorization for separate schools for this population, which he theorized were descended from Croatan Indians. (There is no scholarly basis to this.) The public system was otherwise racially segregated into blacks (mostly freedmen's children), and whites.
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