Mooresville, North Carolina Mooresville, North Carolina Location of Mooresville, North Carolina Location of Mooresville, North Carolina State North Carolina Mooresville is a town in southern Iredell County, North Carolina, USA.

Mooresville is best known as the home of many NASCAR racing squads and drivers, along with an Indy - Car team and its drivers, as well as racing technology suppliers, which has earned the town/city the nickname "Race City USA." Also positioned in Mooresville is the corporate command posts of Lowe's Companies and Universal Technical Institute's NASCAR Technical Institute.

6.1 The Mooresville Graded School District 6.2 Iredell-Statesville School District Mooresville is positioned at 35 35 4 N 80 49 13 W (35.584337, 80.820139). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 14.7 square miles (38 km2), of which, 14.7 square miles (38 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.20%) is water.

The region that would precarious into the town of Mooresville was originally settled by English, German, and Scot-Irish families who moved into the region from close-by Rowan County, as well as Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Several other historic plantation homes set in the region as well, such as the elegant Johnson-Neel House, the Cornelius House, Forest Dell Plantation, and the colonial era Belmont Plantation.

The town was incorporated as Mooresville in 1873.

Moore also helped to establish the first brick making factory in Mooresville, and assembled some of the first brick buildings on Main Street.

In 1938, artist Alicia Weincek painted the mural, North Carolina Cotton Industry, in the town's postal service having won a WPA competition for the commissioned work.

From textile mills to NASCAR; over the years, many company and industries have called Mooresville home.

One of the more notable being, a experienced minor league baseball team, the Mooresville Moors who played in the Class D North Carolina State League from 1937 1942.

Mooresville has also been home to many famous citizens over the years as well such as Dr.

Mooresville has continued to expanded over the years to turn into a primary attraction for sports companies, businesses, the movie trade and many the rest since its incorporation.

On December 11, 2014, Duke Energy, to repair a rusted, leaking pipe, received approval from North Carolina to dump Coal Ash (containing arsenic, lead, thallium and mercury, among other heavy metals) from the Marshall Steam Station into Lake Norman. Mooresville is also branded as Race City USA. The town is home to more than 60 NASCAR squads and racing related businesses, along with an INDYCAR team.

Mooresville features two automotive exhibitions: The Memory Lane Motorsports and Historical Automotive Museum and the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame.

Mooresville is governed by a Board of Commissioners which is chaired by the mayor, Miles Atkins.

Mooresville is primarily served by the Mooresville Graded School District, but is also partly in the Iredell-Statesville school system.

A proposal in the 2007 North Carolina state budget could have possibly merged the two systems. It states that only one school fitness in a county would be funded.

By 2010, every student in the fourth through twelfth grades in the Mooresville Graded School District had a Mac - Book laptop. Mooresville recently assembled a new intermediate school and elementary school, then moved the middle school to Mooresville Intermediate School, and is using the old middle school as an extended ground of the Mooresville High School, known as the Magnolia Street Campus.

In 2010, Mooresville Graded School District dedicated and retitled the high school's football stadium after Coach Joe Popp.

Coach Popp and the 1961 Mooresville Blue Devils won the NC State High School Football Championship and remain the only team from Mooresville to have that honor.

Coach Popp Stadium is positioned behind the Magnolia Street Campus of Mooresville High School. Mooresville is also the locale of a ground of Mitchell Community College, whose chief campus is in Statesville, the governmental center of county of Iredell County.

In addition to having top notch schools, the Mooresville improve has a class 5 - A Marching Band, Pride in Motion, that is revered as one of the best in the state.

The Mooresville Graded School District Mooresville Intermediate (Grades 4 6) Mooresville Middle School (Grades 7 8) Mooresville Senior High School (Grades 9 12) Woodland Heights Elementary School Lake Norman Elementary School Lake Norman High School South Iredell High School Troutman Elementary School Lake Norman Christian School (moved to Davidson, North Carolina) Davidson Day School (located in Davidson, North Carolina) Woodlawn School positioned 1 mile north of Davidson College in Iredell County Pine Lake Preparatory School (Charter School) In addition to a number of historic sites including Mount Mourne Plantation, Johnson-Neel House, Cornelius House, and Espy Watts Brawley House, Mooresville is home to the following historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Mooresville Historic District, which includes much of the downtown commercial district; Mooresville Mill Village Historic District, a residentiary region near the former foundry site; and Town of Mooresville Board of Commissioner Minutes, Book 1, Mooresville, 1875 Mooresville, North Carolina - the early years, First Edition, Mooresville, 1967.

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City of Mooresville.

"North Carolina General Assembly - Senate Bill 120 Information/History (2007-2008 Session)".

"Mooresville's Shining Example (It's Not Just About the Laptops)".

Mooresville Graded School District Lake Norman Christian School Municipalities and communities of Iredell County, North Carolina, United States State of North Carolina

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