Dunn, North Carolina Dunn, North Carolina City of Dunn Location of Dunn, North Carolina Location of Dunn, North Carolina State North Carolina Website City of Dunn Dunn is a town/city in Harnett County, North Carolina, United States.
It is the anchor town/city of the Dunn Micropolitan Area, populace 114,678 (2010 census), which is a part of the greater Raleigh Durham Cary Combined Travel Destination (CSA) as defined by the United States Enumeration Bureau.
Originally called Lucknow, what would turn into present day Dunn was a sleepy hamlet compared to Averasborough, a much larger town/city on the Cape Fear River.
The town/city of Dunn was incorporated on February 12, 1887, at which time was a logging town and a turpentine distilling center.
The Dunn Commercial Historic District, Harnett County Training School, Kenneth L.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.2 square miles (16 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,196 citizens , 3,797 homeholds, and 2,422 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $28,550, and the median income for a family was $39,521.
Dunn is home to four schools.
Heritage Bible College; Harnett Primary is for Preschool through 3rd grade; Wayne Avenue Elementary is for 4th through 5th grade; Dunn Middle School is for grades 6, 7, and 8.
Dunn's students then attend Triton High School in close-by Erwin.
Dunn is also home to a several small private schools.
Dunn is the place of birth of modern and roll musician Link Wray, and Major General William Lee, the father of the United States Army's Airborne forces, who commanded the 101st Airborne Division (the "Screaming Eagles") amid World War II.
In December 1981, three students at Dunn High School were spanked with a wooden paddle by the assistant principal, Glenn Varney, as punishment for skipping school.
School corporal punishment is legal in the state of North Carolina and was at the time permitted by the Harnett County school precinct (which in 2008 changed their policy to ban corporal punishment).
The paddling led the parents of one of the students, 17-year-old Shelly Gaspersohn, to file a $55,000 lawsuit against Varney and the school the following May (Gaspersohn v.
She stated that the county medical examiner who treated her for bruises and external hemorrhaging in the days after she was paddled filed a child abuse charge against Varney (a fact that was not allowed to be presented at trial), but that "there is no agency that can investigate a charge of child abuse against a enhance school teacher." Shelly Gaspersohn also called for the abolition of school paddling in a guest column for USA Today, presented October 23, 1984. United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Paddle ban: Harnett County sees the light regarding corporal punishment in school, The Fayetteville Observer, September 15, 2008 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE SCHOOLS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1984 U.S.
Municipalities and communities of Harnett County, North Carolina, United States This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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