Mooresville hopes grant will put Mooresville mill village on national register

By: From staff reports | Mooresville Tribune
Published: May 07, 2010

The Town of Mooresville has been tabbed to receive a $12,000 grant from the The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

The town is slated to use the grant to "prepare a National Register nomination for the Mooresville Mill Village," according to Department of Cultural Resources press release.

The Town of Mooresville will also chip in $10,000 for the project, which will focus on the mill village located near the railroad line along Highway 115 in south Mooresville. The plan is to put the village, which was built by Mooresville Cotton Mills between 1902 and 1923 for its workers, on the National Register of Historical Places.

"Mooresville Cotton Mills was a significant economic force in the community, and the village development coincided with the company's construction and expansion of a large mill facility at the southern end of town," the press release said.

The grant, awarded by the State Historic Preservation Office, was part of $92,000 in grants awarded by the Department of Cultural Resources to nine counties across North Carolina.

"Listing in the National Register of Historic Places will bring recognition to this important part of Mooresville's history and will also enable property owners to become eligible to apply for state and federal historic preservation tax credits," according to the press release.

The City of Salisbury received a $15,000 grant to create a city preservation plan.