Oral History Program

Oral History of Mooresville, Iredell County, as told by local individuals.

The Mooresville Museum Oral History Program is an effort to record and archive first-person narratives of selected citizens of Mooresville.

The purpose of the Mooresville Museum Oral History Program is to supplement the written history of Mooresville, North Carolina and its surrounding communities through recorded interviews of individuals sharing their recollections of experiences, thoughts, and feelings about specific events or periods of time regarding community history, politics, agriculture, business, public health, medicine and welfare, education, religion and other general topics of interest.

Oral histories will be collected, preserved and archived by the Mooresville Museum Society.

The Oral History Project Committee Members currently are Ann Brown [Chairperson], Al Culp, Sharon Culp, Alice Lee, Mary Morrow, Joann Rautenberg, Jim Ray, Linda Ray, Kim Streb.

The Cascade Quilt Oral History

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Rebecca Buchanan, Ila Munday, Jerry Munday.

One of the first oral histories collected was about the Cascade Quilt. This quilt was created in the late 1930's by a group of women who lived in the Cascade Village.  They would get together in the evenings and create the quilt squares from scraps of material which had been used to create clothing for themselves and their children.  They shared with each other.

Mrs. Munday, age 93, is one of the women who created this quilt and she shared the story of its creation. Mrs. Munday commented on several of the patterns saying 'I remember that dress, it was my favorite".

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