Aberdeen is a town in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Raleigh–Durham–Cary-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area and is home to over 7,000 people. Aberdeen is a small town full of historical character that was settled by Scottish emigrants around 1745. The Town was known as Bethesda and Blue’s Crossing before it adopted its current name in the later part of the nineteenth century.
In 1892, John Blue built a rail line off of the Raleigh & Augusta Air Line in Aberdeen eastward reaching Fayetteville and the Cape Fear River, making Aberdeen a central hub for industry and manufacturing. Today, Aberdeen is the third most populous community in Moore County and is still a commercial, industrial and railroad hub in southern Moore County, served by major US Highways and 3 railroads.