[7] Many freed slaves moved to the area from nearby Fincastle after slavery to purchase land and enjoy their newfound freedom.

From the 1870 census the following were residents of the area: After emancipation freedman began to sharecrop with their former masters in communities like Fincastle, Pleasant Ridge and New York.

Around 1872 they soon began to leave behind former plantations like Crossroads, Flat Creek, Stockard and such, and former masters such as Ratliff, Faulk, Wofford and Coleman.

They began to purchase land in the Moore Station area, including the Andersons, Cofers, Douglases and Hightowers.

Some were descendants of the founding fathers, families like John O. Bullard, William Weatherford, Lachlan Durant, the Faulk brothers and others who migrated into the Deep South, which was Native American in the 1700s, to uproot tribes like the Creek and Seminole people.

Most of the population of present-day Moore Station are descendants of their slaves such as Lousia Durant, Addison/Adderson Cofer and Ralph Calhoun.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Moore Station has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.3 km2), all land.