Mooresville Homes For Sale & Real Estate

Mooresville, located in Southern Iredell County, was incorporated in 1873 and was primarily an agricultural community. When the town’s namesake, John Franklin Moore, succeeded in bringing the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroads to the area during the upsurge of the cotton trade, Mooresville’s economy quickly expanded to include textiles. Today the business sector is very diverse, but state of the art textile production is still a strong factor in its economy. Growth has skyrocketed over the past decade.

The town’s largest employer, Lowe’s Home Improvement Headquarters, employs an estimated 3,000 workers. Its impressive environmentally sustainable campus sits on a 275 acre parcel with a 7 acre lake, walking trails and zen garden.
Mooresville, also known as Race City, USA, is home to approximately 35 race shops and motorsports related industries. Each year 100,000 to 150,000 people come to visit the area’s many shops and museums or to try to catch a glimpse of their favorite drivers.

Even with all this growth Mooresville’s leadership has managed to maintain a true spirit of community. Newcomers to the area experience a sincere, friendly welcome.
Recreational activities abound in Mooresville. In addition to the amenities of nearby Lake Norman, Mooresville has parks, museums, tennis courts, and a regulation par 72 golf course open to the public. It is also home to The Point, a luxury waterfront community with Trump National Golf Club, a Greg Norman designed golf course.

Mooresville is the home of award winning artist “Cotton” Ketchie. He captures scenes of his beloved state of North Carolina from the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Outer Banks with great respect for his subjects. He is nationally known for his paintings of lighthouses from the rocky shores of Maine and Canada to the windswept dunes of the Carolina coast.

Cotton’s gallery is on Main Street in downtown Mooresville, where you can find a variety of shops, fabulous restaurants and Merino’s Home Furnishings. The latter is of note because it provides a unique shopping experience, being housed in a long-vacant cotton mill with some of its buildings dating to the late 1800’s.