Prices starting at (using lowest
price accommodations): $159. Per person, double occupancy.
Package rates may vary by season and day of the week. Not all activities
may be available in every season.
This package includes:
- Two night’s accommodations
- All hotel taxes
- Breakfast each morning
- All paid hotel parking
- Admission to all highlighted attractions and activities, Martinsville Speedway not included
- Complete Personal Travel Portfolio with story, detailed driving directions, customized maps and information about all activities and attractions
- 24/7 assistance
American
Driving Vacations Presents:The Real America: Southern Virginia on the Move
3 Days/2 Nights
They call it Uptown! They call it revitalization! They’re right. If you visited Martinsville when tobacco was king, you won’t recognize it now. It’s a case study in how to take a town faced with a changing economy and successfully change directions as it has many times in the past.
Martinsville is an old town, established in 1791 in Henry County, named after Patrick Henry whose family lived in the area. When the Martinsville tobacco market was established, farmers no longer had to travel to Danville or Lynchburg to sell their tobacco. It would be sold, manufactured and shipped directly from Martinsville. When tobacco companies began consolidating into large corporations in the early 1900s, J.D. Bassett established the Bassett Furniture Company and Ancil Witten, formerly of the Rucker-Witten Tobacco Company, came together with Charles Keesee to establish American Furniture Company of Martinsville. That brand is still in America’s furniture stores. As other furniture manufacturers joined in, the downtown began expanding. Textile manufacturing began moving to Martinsville in 1925 and out again in the early 1990s.
Today, in the revitalizing Uptown Martinsville, you can see the vestiges of all these industries. Tobacco warehouses number among the more than 70 buildings that have been totally rehabilitated to stand proudly among many that were never allowed to reach that point.
With a new Visitors Center and Artisans Center and a once again thriving Farmers Market, Martinsville is now welcoming visitors from around the world. Come to visit. You’ll see what we’re talking about.