Editor’s note: With 2014 fast approaching, we begin a three-part series today on Mooresville’s early growth, written by local historian and frequent Tribune contributor Cindy Jacobs.
In 1914, visitors to Mooresville’s business district found more than 35 stores offering a wide variety of goods and services. With a population of 4,500, the town was growing and expanding its residential and business districts.
A commercial building boom started in 1908 and expanded the business district north and south including large brick and mortar structures for McNeely Livery, Merchants and Farmers Bank, W. C. Johnston Hardware, W.M Freeze and the Mystic and Artcraft movie theaters. James W. Brown opened the Crystal Palace Theater in 1908 and was showing moving pictures every evening by 1910. Citizens were entertained and educated with newsreels, news from Hollywood as well as programs provided by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the celebration of Memorial Day.
H. N. Johnston’s ice plant added to the industrial community in 1908. The latest electric machinery produced perfect, clear ice available for pick up or delivery in special ice wagon with the
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