Published on: March 21, 2022 at 6:00 PM

By Jennifer Crossley Howard
Alabama Living

If Alabama had hamlets, Mooresville would be its poster child.

The town, which looks more like a village, sits tucked behind the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge, right off I-565, between Decatur and Huntsville. It is just out of earshot of traffic, and you know you’re there when you arrive at the split wood fence and block-letter sign.

“We wanted it to feel like you know you’re in Mooresville,” says former mayor Margaret-Ann Crumlish of the fence. “It’s like we put a little hug around town.”

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