Seven Lakes offers three distinctive developments. Seven Lakes North features the seven original lakes with swimming, fishing, boating, and water sports. Seven Lakes South is built around the member-owned golf course -- Seven Lakes Country Club, designed by Peter V. Tufts III, great grandson of the founder of Pinehurst. Seven Lakes West is the newest section developing around a 1,000-acre lake.

Seven Lakes features its own village shopping center that includes a grocery store, restaurants, banks, health care and a variety of other businesses. More extensive shopping areas are located in Aberdeen and Southern Pines (15 miles) and Pinehurst (8 miles). Large malls are available in Sanford (35 miles), Fayetteville (45 miles), Raleigh (70 miles) and Greensboro (70 miles). Museums, concerts, lectures, and fine dining are available both locally and in the areas above. North Carolina has an excellent highway system so travel is easy.

As with most of Southern Moore County, the area that includes Vass, Cameron and Woodlake was settled by Scotsmen. F. D. Byrd arrived even before the railroad. He built a home around 1877 that burned in 1890. He rebuilt his home with a store at the front, and this was the start of business operations in Vass.

Originally known as Bynum for an early settler, Joseph Bynum, the town later became Winder for Major Winder, an official with the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad. The name that stuck came from another honored railroad official, Major William Worrell Vass, longtime paymaster for the Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. It seems unusual that Major Vass was never a resident of the town that was named after him. The name Vass was officially adopted in 1892. Vass was incorporated as a municipality in 1907. Today the town has a population estimated around 800.

Woodlake Country Club is a beautiful resort and golfing community situated on the outskirts of Vass, one of many in the area.

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