“Virtual Walking Tour”

Historic DowntownMooresville

Copyright © 2009 by Mooresville Public Library. All rights reserved. Photographs reprinted by permission. All photographs taken from the MPL Indiana Room historical photograph collection, unless otherwise noted.

Photo, Slide #1: Mooresville Public Library (1916), commonly called the “Carnegie Library” as it was funded by a grant from Andrew Carnegie.

Photo (Left), Slide #2: Carnegie Library building (in Oct. 2007).Photo (Right), Slide #2: Mooresville Public Library today (2008).

(Schools Version—Last Revised on 8/8/2009)

MHS Students Celebrate 2/22/22

Mooresville High School students celebrate a basketball game victory at the

center of downtown Mooresville—February 22, 1922

Downtown Intersection(Northwest Corner, Indiana and Main Streets)

Farmers State Bank (1873-1930) (Old Building: 1880s – 1904)

Downtown Intersection(Northwest Corner, Indiana and Main Streets)

Farmers State Bank (1904-1930) Roscoe Stovall, Jr. & Associates (2008)

Downtown Intersection(Northeast Corner, Indiana and Main Streets)

I.O.O.F. Building (ca. 1881-1920s)

Hadley Mini-Park (2008)

Downtown Intersection(Southeast Corner, Indiana and Main Streets)

George W. Bass Drugstore (ca. 1880-1902)

Downtown Intersection(Southeast Corner, Indiana and Main Streets)

▲ South Side of East Main Street

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Downtown Intersection(Southwest Corner, Indiana and Main Streets)

◄ Lindley Block (1905-1925) (burned down Dec. 27, 1925)

▲ SW Corner (in Oct. 2007)

◄ Mason’s Pure Oil Station (1959-1960)

Downtown — East Main Street (between 1902-1907)

Main Street looking east from the Intersection with Indiana Street (circa 1902-1907 (photo probably by J. P. Calvert).

Pace Thompson Post Rusie Dry Goods Office Furniture & Undertakers

Hundley Bargain Store)

Downtown — East Main Street

Main Street, looking east across the Indiana Street Intersection (1880s/1890s) (photo by J. P. Calvert)

I.O.O.F. Building (built 1881-84); Gro. & Queensw., Merchants (built c. 1870)

Bass Drugs(built c. 1880)

A. W. Conduitt Dry Goods (built 1870-71)

North Side of East Main Street, between 1909 and 1917 (photo by J. P. Calvert).

Downtown — East Main Street, North Side

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◄ North Side: (L to R) Mills Dry Goods Store; Thompson Dry Goods; U.S. Post Office (photo taken between 1909-1917)

Downtown — East Main Street

(East Main Street, late 1890s/early 1900s) (photos by J. P. Calvert) ►

Downtown — East Main Street, South Side (ca. 1908)

“George Scruggs sent this postcard to Mrs. S. Scruggs in O’Fallon, Illinois, with this message: ‘The buildings with the arrows are the ones we do business in.” Scruggs owned and operated a dry goods store here from 1891 to 1921. The G.A. Keller hardware store is at center. Burch Grocery and Bass Drugstore occupy the building in the foreground.’” Morgan County, by Joanne Raetz Stuttgen & Curtis Tomak (Postcard History Series, Arcadia Publ., 2007)(ISBN 0-7385-5120-1). (photo by J. P. Calvert.)

George R. Scruggs Dry Goods Keller Hardware Burch Grocery

George W. Bass Drugstore

◄ G. R. Scruggs Dry Goods Store (ca. 1889),9 E. Main St. (photo by

J. P. Calvert)

Mooresville Band (circa 1910). (photo by George B. Carter) ►

Downtown — East Main Street, South

Side (2008)

◄ (L to R) Spotlight on Stars Dance Academy; Mooresville Open Market; Mooresville Discount Mattress Outlet; Movieland USA (corner, downstairs)

(L to R) Zydeco’s 5 Restaurant; Spotlight on Stars Dance Academy; Mooresville Open Market ►

◄ Burch Grocery (ca. 1908-09), 3 East Main Street (photo by J.P. Calvert)

3 East Main Street (2008):

Mooresville Discount Mattress Outlet; Movieland USA (corner, downstairs) ►

◄ Main Street, looking west from Indiana St. intersection, during the 1910 Horse Show. Farmers State Bank (near right), Lindley Block (near left) (photo by J.P. Calvert).

Main Street Looking West From Indiana Street Intersection (after 1902) (photographer unknown). ►

◄ West Main Street (looking west across intersection with Indiana Street) (early 1900s) (photo by J. P. Calvert)

(Ca. 1910) West Main Street, looking east toward the intersection of Main and Indiana Streets. East Main St. is on the far side of the intersection (photo by J. P. Calvert). ►

◄ South Indiana Street from the intersection of Main Street (1911)

(photos by J. P. Calvert)

Lindley Block

Ross Moore’s Restaurant

Britton’s Cash Store

South Indiana Street from the middle of North Indiana Street, just across the Main Street intersection (ca. 1910) ►

◄ West Main Street, South Side, during the 1910 Horse Show (photo by J. P. Calvert)

(R to L Taggart’s Bakery; Pace Thompson Dry Goods; Carlisle & Gilbert Furniture & Undertakers; Lindley Block)

May 2008West Main St.,

South Side(L to R: Harris

& Currens; appliance store; Pat’s Tavern) ►

▲ Then…10 N. Indiana—Day’s Grocery (before 1909) (photo by J. P. Calvert)

▼ Now… 10 N. Indiana (May 2008) Main Street Gifts & Collectibles

12 West Main Street—Lindley & Jessup Hardware circa 1910. Pictured are (left to right): Howard W. Lindley, Will Horton, Mr. Wolfe, and Mr. Thompson. In 1944, Lindley sold the store, which became Nelson & Son Hardware. (photo by J.P. Calvert.)

In this mid-1960s photograph, Adler’s Department Store and Nelson & Son Hardware appear at the westerly end of the north side of West Main Street, close to the 1916 Carnegie building that housed Mooresville Public Library. Harold Moore’s AG Food Market is right of an unidentified pedestrian, who may have been the intended central subject of this photograph. Hayes Drug Store appears on the right.

◄ The 1964 Wagon Trails (Mooresville High School yearbook) shows the former home of the Farmers State Bank (corner, above mailbox).

▲ Cooper’s Drugstore was the predecessor to Hayes Drugstore at6 West Main Street (advertisement in 1958 Wagon Trails, MHS yearbook).

Adler’s Department Store

Moore’s Market

Hayes Drugs

Now... North Side of West Main Street (May, 2008)

▲ L to R: Carnegie Library Building; Tri-County Sports Shop; Yellow Moon Antique Mall; Main Street Photography ►

◄ Then... 19 S. Indiana —Day’s Grocery (1909)

(photo by J. P. Calvert)

Then… Gray Brothers Restaurant (circa 1960), South Indiana St. ▼

Now... 19 S. Indiana (May 2008)(R to L: X-Treme Dance Academy; Pete Majeski State Farm Insurance)

Then... 17 S. Indiana—Post Office (circa 1900)

Now... 17 S. Indiana (May 2008)

Then… 31 S. Indiana Street — Dr. W. L. Thompson’s Office (ca. 1909)(photo by J. P. Calvert) ►

◄ Now… 31 S. Indiana Street (Oct. 2007)Nichols Insurance

◄ Then…Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church (1914)

Now… Mooresville Government Center (Oct. 2007) ►

York & Overton store, 1890s, probably at 20-18 South Indiana Street. ►

◄ A. H. Sellars dry goods store, 1880s, at 20-18 South Indiana Street. Reprinted from Richardson, Clara S. History of Mooresville, 1824-1974 (Dickinson Printing Co., 1974), at p. 23.

Britton’s “cash store” grocery (1900-1929). J. H. Britton (right) stands with son-in-law Horace Hadley (center) and brother Robert Britton (left), who helped J. H. with the store. Horace ran Hadley’s restaurant, which was located two buildings to the north in the Lindley Block (on the corner of Indiana and Main Streets). The Lindley Block was destroyed by fire on December 27, 1925. Photo excerpted from Hardin, Rebecca. Morgan County Scrapbook, Vol. 1 (Morgan County History & Genealogy Association, Inc., 1985, reprinted 1996), at p. 297.

◄ Copeland Appliance Store (circa 1970) at 20-18-16 South

Indiana Street.

20-18-16 South Indiana Street (May 2008).(L to R: Life Enhancement Resources; Online Appraisal & Real Estate Services) ►

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about historic Mooresville (and vicinity) and about scenes & places taken from the past and brought into the present.

George Allison’s Grocery replaced Burch Grocery in the G.W. Bass Building at 3 East Main Street in the early 1920s (see photos, below). Allison later moved to 19 South Indiana Street (1927-1936), replacing E. W. Day’s Grocery.