Martinsville, Virginia Martinsville, Virginia Martinsville's uptown precinct Martinsville's uptown precinct Official seal of Martinsville, Virginia Martinsville is an autonomous town/city near the southern border of the U.S.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 13,821. It is the governmental center of county of Henry County, although the two are separate jurisdictions.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the town/city of Martinsville with Henry County for statistical purposes.
Martinsville is the principal town/city of the Martinsville Micropolitan Statistical Area, with a populace of 73,346 as of the 2000 census.
The paper clip-shaped Martinsville Speedway, the shortest track in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at 0.526 miles (847 m) and one of the first paved "speedways," is positioned just outside the town/city near the town of Ridgeway.
Martinsville was established by American Revolutionary War General, Indian agent and explorer Joseph Martin, born in Albemarle County. He advanced his plantation Scuffle Hill on the banks of the Smith River near the present-day southern town/city limits.
General Martin and revolutionary patriot Patrick Henry, who lived briefly in Henry County and for whom the county is named, were good friends.
The Henry County region became known as the "plug tobacco capital of the world." Martinsville declared itself an autonomous town/city in 1928, while retaining its status as county seat.
(In the 21st century however, it is a governmental center of county in name only, as all of Henry County's administrative and judicial functions are carried out from the administration building and courthouse in close-by Collinsville.) Business leaders in the mid-20th century, like Whitney Shumate, worked to advancement sub-standard housing in Martinsville.
He helped clear out a portion of Martinsville called "Mill Town", which had sub-standard rental housing originally provided in the 19th century for the defunct cotton foundry employees.
He and associates purchased about 50 homes in North Martinsville, and using private capital clean water federal aid, rebuilt them into comfortably inhabitable homes, making it possible for many persons to purchase homes inside their financial range." In the early 1990s, changing global economic conditions and new trade treaties made Martinsville textiles and furniture manufacturing economically unsustainable.
Due to the small-town government's inability to fund definite services, in the near future the town/city of Martinsville may decide to legally convert into the town of Martinsville.
The Martinsville City School District has Martinsville High School, which averages about 900 pupils.
The Martinsville City Public Schools fitness has 1 high school, 1 middle school, 2 elementary schools, and 1 preschool.
Additionally, there is a private P.S.-12 school near Martinsville in Henry County, Carlisle School.
Martinsville is also home to the Virginia Museum of Natural History, an partner of the Smithsonian Institution.
It was established by Martinsville indigenous Dr.
Memorial Hospital of Martinsville serves the greater Martinsville and Henry County area.
John Armstrong Shackelford, an early graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Founder of the Hospital Association of Virginia, Dr.
Shackelford Hospital was sold in 1946, and Martinsville General Hospital later opened with Dr.
John Shackelford as its first chief surgeon. In 1970 Memorial Hospital of Martinsville opened its doors, replacing Martinsville General.
The Beaver Creek Plantation, John Waddey Carter House, Dry Bridge School, East Church Street-Starling Avenue Historic District, Fayette Street Historic District, Little Post Office, Martinsville Fish Dam, Martinsville Historic District, Martinsville Novelty Corporation Factory, and Scuffle Hill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.0 square miles (28.5 km2), of which 11.0 square miles (28.5 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km2) (0.5%) is water. The north side of the town/city has the highest average elevation.
Martinsville is home to the Martinsville Mustangs of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer baseball league.
The Mustangs play at Hooker Field in Martinsville.
Martinsville is also home to Martinsville Speedway, which opened in 1947.
George Hairston plantation owner, former sheriff of Henry County, Brigadier General, War of 1812 Patrick Henry American patriot (resided at Leatherwood Plantation, Henry County, outside current town/city limits) Home of Henry Clay Lester, early tobacco manufacturer, Main Street, Martinsville.
Henry County Courthouse Square, Martinsville, about 1890.
General Joseph Martin (1740 1808), born Albemarle County, Virginia, died Henry County, Virginia Staff of Draper's Barber Shop, Franklin Street, Martinsville, 1920.
Pannill Knitting Company, early Martinsville textile concern established in 1926 Pannill Rucker, early Martinsville tobacco manufacturer.
Class of 1912, Martinsville High School Jesse Martin Shackelford, predecessor of Martinsville Memorial Hospital National Register of Historic Places listings in Martinsville, Virginia Martinsville Seven a b "State & County Quick - Facts".
Martinsville Bulletin.
Martinsville Bulletin.
The Doctors Shackelford and the Shackelford Hospital, Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society.
Jesse Martin Shackelford, M.D., Martinsville Henry County Historical Society.
John Armstrong Shackelford, M.D., Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society.
"Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990".
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