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Spencer is a town in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States, incorporated in 1905. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 3,267.

The town was named for Samuel Spencer, first president of the Southern Railway, who is credited with initiation of the railroad’s mechanical shops at the site in 1896. The site was nearly the midpoint of the railroad’s mainline amid Atlanta, GA and Washington, D.C. As the shops were innate built the Southern Railway developed a town, also named Spencer, alongside the shops for worker housing. Initially, the Southern partitioned 85 acres into 500 lots. Instead of creating a traditional “company” town in which the workers rented houses Southern sold the lots to workers or businesses for $100 apiece. The happenings did contain restrictive covenants which maintained that a house costing in excess of $400 and attributed by a Southern appointed architect be built within a year. The Southern donated lots for religious institutions. Southern then helped announce a YMCA in the town. The community grew speedily and by 1901 had 625 residents. By the 1920s it had 4,000 residents.

The former Spencer Shops were phased out during the 1950s through 1970s and have now become the location of the North Carolina Transportation Museum.