Short history of Mooresville School in Mooresville, Alabama explored.

Mooresville School was an elementary school that served the small town of Mooresville, Alabama from the 19th century to 21st century. Not much else is/was known about this school.


Mooresville School was established sometime in or around 1805. The exact date or specific year of when Mooresville School was built is unknown. The school had a detached gym and an auditorium for assemblies. Several windows were installed in classrooms. Mooresville School had a 0.5 acre park with grass that got an occasional mowing.

According to the Birmingham News, Mooresville School was reconstructed at a cost of $15,000 dollars in 1925. A new auditorium was build during that same time period. The new school was reconstructed on the original site. The school had a detached gym which was renovated also. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/572332472/)

Birmingham News announced Miss Florence Woodard arrived on Sunday, September 5, 1926 to teach at the Mooresville School, which at the time was known as Belle Mina-Mooresville School. Miss Frances Pitts of Birmingham, Alabama also educated students at this school for a number of years. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/534739077/)

“Miss Florence Woodard arrived Saturday to teach in the Belle Mina-Mooresville School this term. Miss Frances Pitts of Birmingham spent the weekend with her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Hodge Pitts.”


The county board of education advertised for bids for additions to the Belle Mina-Mooresville School building along with other schools in The Huntsville Times newspaper on the date of Sunday, February 12, 1939. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/554456117/)

“The county board of education has advertised for bids for additions to the East Limestone school, the Belle Mina-Mooresville school, and for remodeling the county high school at Elkmont.”

In 1962, Mooresville School received from the county board of education a promise to attempt to find a better source of drinking water at that school. The school's water supply was retrieved from a well near Highway 20 in which locality several service stations are/were located at. Charlie Tucker and Rex Marsh, trustees of the Belle Mina-Mooresville School, said students complained of the bad taste of the water and about 75 percent of them bring their drinking water from their homes. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/555257368/)

“Charlie Tucker and Rex Marsh, trustees of the Belle Mina-Mooresville School, Mooresville School received from the board a promise to attempt to find a better source of drinking water at that school. The school's water supply now comes from a well near Highway 20 in which locality several service stations are located. Marsh and Tucker said students complained of the bad taste of the water and about 75 per cent of them bring their drinking water from their homes. Tucker and Marsh said Dr. B. S. Kennedy had offered the use of the well on a place he owns near the school. Board members said they would have it tested for capacity and sanitation.”


In 2009 the school was abandoned by the county board of education. Mooresville School sat vacant for many years. Mooresville School was later demolished in 2017.

Mooresville School was located on 5720 CR 71, Mooresville, Alabama, US 35649.