on the National Register of Historic Places. The building now serves as a local history museum as well as the offices of the Community Foundation of Morgan County, Inc. Also on the Newby campus is the "old Newby gym" or the "Newby Dome." The gym was built in the early 1900s with help from Mooresville residents who each contributed $100 to help build the facility. The campus also includes the Mooresville Veterans Memorial, which honors Mooresville's fallen soldiers from World War I and beyond. The Memorial also honors Sammy Lee Davis, who received the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam. Davis is known as "The Real Forrest Gump" since his Vietnam story is mirrored in the movie Forrest Gump and his Medal of Honor ceremony footage is used in the movie. Public library The town has a lending library, the Mooresville Public Library. Infrastructure Transportation Mooresville is served by Indiana State Road 67. Indiana State Road 42 & Indiana State Road 144 End at SR 67 in Southern Mooresville. Due to the recent redesign of the Indianapolis International Airport, Mooresville is actually closer to the airport's new passenger terminal (11.5 miles by road, according to Google Maps) than downtown Indianapolis is (14.8 miles). Health care Mooresville is served by Franciscan St. Francis Health-Mooresville, formerly known as Kendrick Hospital and St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville. The full-service hospital includes an emergency department, labor and delivery and cancer care, and it is home to the Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana Research Foundation. Notable people William G. Bray, Republican, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1950 and served from the 82nd to 93rd Congress John Dillinger, gangster and bank robber Paul Hadley, designer of the Indiana State Flag Julia D. Nelson, elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1921, the first woman elected to the Indiana General Assembly Amos Rusie, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Ruth Hinshaw Spray, peace activist Nan Whaley, mayor of Dayton, Ohio Neighboring communities References External links Town website Towns in Indiana Towns in Morgan County, Indiana Indianapolis metropolitan area