Town of Huntersville Area Description

Huntersville

Huntersville is home to about 40,000 people. Huntersville’s population growth has been fueled by a booming Real Estate and homebuilding industry. Huntersville operates a park and recreation department that organizes classes, special events and athletics for all ages. Huntersville also has a family fitness center and outdoor Fun Park where kids can slide through tubes, spray water cannons and climb sprinkler filled jungle gyms inside a pod. Latta plantation Nature has hiking trails, nature center, an equestrian center, boating and fishing on Lake Norman and Mt. Isle Lake and a Raptor Center for injured birds of prey. It is one of several communities that border the Lake Norman area. It also plays host to the Carolina Renaissance Festival which takes place every weekend from October 6^th through November 18^th.

The town was named for Cotton farmer Robert Boston Hunter. It was incorporated in 1873. Fertile land and a rail line promoted quick growth. It is also known as area 1.6 and 1.7.