Moorseville, Alabama

The oldest post office in Alabama (1840) is here in this town flush with white picket fences, 19th-century architecture and buildings where presidents once resided. In the early 19th century, a young apprentice tailor named Andrew Jackson (he of later presidential fame) took up residence. Stepping into Moorseville is like stepping back into history; the people seem kinder and you’ll never tire of hearing the anecdote of how Alabama didn’t become a state until a year after Moorseville was formed, making it a “town older than the state.”