Sarecta was the first incorporated town in Duplin County, North Carolina, established in 1787. In 1736, Duplin County (then upper New Hanover County) was the destination of several hundred Ulster Scots (Scotch-Irish) and a handful of Swiss Protestants. They settled on a plot of land, 71,160 acres between the Northeast Cape Fear River and Black River, obtained from the Crown by Henry McCulloch of London. Sarecta, originally known as Soracte, was the first settlement in the region on the Northeast Cape Fear. It was originally named after Soracte, the mountain near Rome that once housed a temple dedicated to Apollo.

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