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Mooresville is a town in southern Limestone County, Alabama, between Huntsville and Decatur and just north of Wheeler Lake on the Tennessee River.

It was incorporated on November 16, 1818, by the Alabama Territorial Legislature, the first town that legislature incorporated, more than a year before Alabama became a state.

The town was named for early settlers Robert and William Moore, on whose land the town was laid out.

The 2020 census counted just 47 residents in Mooresville; its population peaked at 183 back in 1880.

The entire town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and its preserved early-19th-century village character has earned it the nickname "Alabama's Williamsburg."

The Stagecoach Inn and Tavern, built in the 1820s, is considered the oldest public frame building in Alabama.

Mooresville's post office, dating to 1840, is the oldest post office in continuous operation in Alabama, and some of its call boxes have been held by the same families since before the Civil War.

Andrew Johnson, later the 17th president of the United States, lived in Mooresville as a young apprentice tailor.

In 1863, James A. Garfield, then a Union general camped nearby and later a U.S. president, preached a sermon at the Mooresville Church of Christ, a white clapboard church built in 1854.

The town's Brick Church, built in 1839 of handmade bricks in the Greek Revival style, served Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist congregations at different times.