Come travel through Mooresville’s history as you experience the birth and growth of our town. Featuring 12 stops, this self-guided walking tour highlights areas of downtown’s development from its incorporation as a town to today. Walk into the past to discover the oldest cemetery in town and find where you could have purchased a buggy in the 1900s.

The tour begins and ends at the Mooresville Museum and takes about an hour to complete. During your travels, you will find information from the early days of Mooresville to the importance of our railroads and cotton industry.

After the textile industry left just a generation ago, Mooresville faced desertion. Growing from a back country settlement around a deep well to a growing village on the eve of the Civil War, Mooresville has seen many faces and changed in many ways. Our town has housed the railroad industry, the State’s largest textile company, racing companies, movie sets and is today a center of economic growth. Mooresville retained its rich past and has continued to grow and thrive.