ABSTRACT
The town of Huntersville is located in northern Mecklenburg County in the state of North Carolina. Incorporated in 1873, the town's early history was tied to farming and its location on a once busy but now rarely used rail corridor connecting the town of Statesville to the north, to the city of Charlotte to the south. Huntersville's first century was marked by very slow growth and development, with a 1990 US Census population of approximately 3000. Fueled by improved accessibility to Charlotte (via new interchanges on adjacent Interstate-77) and the draw of Lake Norman, a large man-made lake created by Duke Energy Company to serve their nearby nuclear power station, development during the 1990s rapidly increased the town's population to 29 387 in 2003 (NC State Data Center, 2003 Certified Municipal Population Estimates).
