{"id":1102,"date":"2023-08-19T03:54:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T03:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themooresvillemuseum.org\/site\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2023-11-19T02:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T02:14:43","slug":"zebulon-vance-turlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themooresvillemuseum.org\/site\/2023\/08\/19\/zebulon-vance-turlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebulon Vance Turlington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"661\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1369\" alt=\"Zeb Turlington\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themooresvillemuseum.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zeb.png?resize=843%2C661&#038;ssl=1\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themooresvillemuseum.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zeb.png?w=1021&amp;ssl=1 1021w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themooresvillemuseum.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zeb.png?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themooresvillemuseum.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zeb.png?resize=768%2C603&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themooresvillemuseum.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zeb.png?resize=600%2C471&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Zebulon Vance Turlington<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If you read everything that Zebulon Vance Turlington was involved with in the early days of Mooresville, you would likely ask yourself why there isn&#8217;t at least a street or school named in his honor or a statue or bronze plaque somewhere along Main St..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Turlington arrived in town (by train) on August 21, 1900, after finishing Law School at Chapel Hill. He brought with him only a few clothes and his law books in a suitcase. He told the story of hoping to make a good first impression on those greeting him and his embarrassment when his suitcase popped open spilling its contents to the ground.<br>He quickly gathered his belongings and made haste to the Central Hotel on Main St (about where the garden is next to Wells Fargo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He soon established his law office above Goodman Drug (Main &amp; Center above present-day Hair of the Dog) but recalled that business was so slow he counted the bricks in the wall at W.W. Rankin&#8217;s Store across the street (present-day Epic Chophouse).By 1904 he was elected as a Representative from Iredell to the State Legislature and went on to serve on again off again for a total of eight terms through 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Turlington served as City Attorney for 60 years and also as an attorney for the Mooresville Graded School System from its inception in 1906 until his resignation in October 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He served as County Attorney for Iredell County for 10 years. In 1921 he helped organize Mooresville&#8217;s Rotary Club and served as President of that organization several times.<br>Mooresville was only 27 years old (since incorporation) when Turlington came to town but his priceless service to the town helped it flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read everything that Zebulon Vance Turlington was involved with in the early days of Mooresville, you would likely ask yourself why there isn&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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