sentences:  The Mooresville area and surrounding communities received large numbers of southern Quakers, driven to migrate because of their opposition to slavery.Paul Hadley, a Mooresville resident, was the designer of the current Indiana flag, as well as a locally prominent water color artist in the early twentieth century.County government took several steps forward in the 2000s, creating a new Plan Commission, re-instituting a county economic development organization, and establishing the county's first Park and Recreation Board between 2000 and 2004.