Overhills is an

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located in the Johnsonville Township of Harnett County,

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, United States, near the

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town of Spring Lake. It is a part of the Dunn Micropolitan Area, which is also a part of the greater Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA) as defined by the

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. The community was originally a estate owned by the

Percy Rockefeller Percy Avery Rockefeller (February 27, 1878 — September 25, 1934) was a board director who founded and was vice president of Owenoke Corporation. He is the son of American Businessman William Avery Rockefeller Jr. and the nephew of Standard Oil ...

family but later acquired by the federal government and is now mostly located inside nearby

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. A Donald Ross-designed golf course was added to the estate in two separate projects and is also now located inside Fort Bragg.

References

External links

Fort Bragg's Overhills website
*, along with photos and measured drawings of about 45 individual structures *

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