Madison County AlArchives History .....Mooresville 1818
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David Norton http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006057 June 7, 2008, 8:59 am

Mooresville was founded in 1818, which places it as one of the oldest 
settlements in Alabama. This is the place where future President Andrew Johnson 
learned his trade as a tailor, in Johnson's youth. The Town retains its 
earliest post office where up to seventh and eighth generation descendants of 
the town's founders still receive their mail---much in the same way as their 
ancestors. There was an ancient stagecoah trail leading through the town 
bringing travelers from Nashville and, an old hotel plus tavern were built to
service the carriage trade. General Andrew Jackson visited Mooresville on 
several occasions whilest he was passing through this area of the Tennessee 
Valley.

Additional Comments:
excerpt from: _Alabama: Portrait of a State_, 1968, complied by Victor B. 
Haagen, A Wingate Book, 608 Four Mile Post Road, Huntsville, Alabama, Southern 
University Press at The Press of Birmingham Publishing Company. (extensively 
edited to add historical datum)

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