Author: Joanne Raetz Stuttgen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Based on vintage postcards, this new book is a unique and welcome addition to the small number of works devoted to the history of Martinsville. Captured here in more than 220 postcard images is an important chronicle of the past 100 years in the "City of Mineral Water." This visual record showcases the sanitariums--including the glorious Home Lawn and its sibling, the Martinsville--industries and businesses, buildings and people, courthouse square, and special events that shaped the past and influenced the present. This fascinating retrospective is an indispensable companion to and expansion of Morgan County, the authors' first book in Arcadia's Postcard History Series.
Martinsville
Author: Joanne Raetz Stuttgen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143963517X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Based on vintage postcards, this new book is a unique and welcome addition to the small number of works devoted to the history of Martinsville. Captured here in more than 220 postcard images is an important chronicle of the past 100 years in the City of Mineral Water. This visual record showcases the sanitariumsincluding the glorious Home Lawn and its sibling, the Martinsvilleindustries and businesses, buildings and people, courthouse square, and special events that shaped the past and influenced the present. This fascinating retrospective is an indispensable companion to and expansion of Morgan County, the authors first book in Arcadias Postcard History Series.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143963517X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Based on vintage postcards, this new book is a unique and welcome addition to the small number of works devoted to the history of Martinsville. Captured here in more than 220 postcard images is an important chronicle of the past 100 years in the City of Mineral Water. This visual record showcases the sanitariumsincluding the glorious Home Lawn and its sibling, the Martinsvilleindustries and businesses, buildings and people, courthouse square, and special events that shaped the past and influenced the present. This fascinating retrospective is an indispensable companion to and expansion of Morgan County, the authors first book in Arcadias Postcard History Series.
Martinsville Pictorial History
Author: Reporter-Times
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Martinsville (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Martinsville (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Martinsville & Henry County Memories
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597258395
Category : Henry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597258395
Category : Henry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Martinsville Bulletin
Author: Martinsville bulletin, Martinsville, Va
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Henry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Henry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Light in the Brush
Author: Graham Jones-Mashman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646176840
Category : Martinsville (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646176840
Category : Martinsville (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Martinsville & Henry County
Author: Martinsville-Henry County Woman's Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Henry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Henry County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
The Brush
Author: Graham Jones-Mashman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646030005
Category : Martinsville (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646030005
Category : Martinsville (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Images of Martinsville, Virginia
Author: Thomas D. Perry
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781448644018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Historian Thomas D. Perry collected, scanned and wrote the text for over 200 images of Martinsville, Virginia.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781448644018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Historian Thomas D. Perry collected, scanned and wrote the text for over 200 images of Martinsville, Virginia.
Martinsville Memories
Author: Stephen H. Provost
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949971033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Martinsville Memories by Stephen H. Provost examines the history of Martinsville, a town in southern Virginia. A town of fewer than 15,000 people, it's been the plug tobacco capital of the world and the sweatshirt capital of the world. It hosts two stock-car races each year at a speedway that holds four times that many people - the oldest on the NASCAR circuit. It's a place of verdant beauty and blue skies a few miles north of the North Carolina state line, in the Goldilocks zone: seldom too hot in summer or two cold in winter. It has thrived as the town with the nation's most millionaires per capita and struggled through factory closures during the era of globalization.Packed with more than 200 images, Martinsville Memories looks at the town from its beginnings through its is a textual and photographic look a diverse town built on tobacco, textiles and furniture that occupies a unique place in the nation's fabric and history. From its the town's historic beginnings through its 20th century prosperity, this volume offers a nostalgic trek through time, with stops at drive-ins, old hotels and iconic storefronts along the way. Martinsville Memories doesn't stop at the city limits, but gives the reader a tour of surrounding communities such Collinsville, Ridgeway, Bassett, Spencer and Axton, as well.With a foreword by author and Martinsville native Stephen Mark Rainey, Martinsville Memories captures the triumphs and struggles of a city at the heart of the South and the soul of America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949971033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Martinsville Memories by Stephen H. Provost examines the history of Martinsville, a town in southern Virginia. A town of fewer than 15,000 people, it's been the plug tobacco capital of the world and the sweatshirt capital of the world. It hosts two stock-car races each year at a speedway that holds four times that many people - the oldest on the NASCAR circuit. It's a place of verdant beauty and blue skies a few miles north of the North Carolina state line, in the Goldilocks zone: seldom too hot in summer or two cold in winter. It has thrived as the town with the nation's most millionaires per capita and struggled through factory closures during the era of globalization.Packed with more than 200 images, Martinsville Memories looks at the town from its beginnings through its is a textual and photographic look a diverse town built on tobacco, textiles and furniture that occupies a unique place in the nation's fabric and history. From its the town's historic beginnings through its 20th century prosperity, this volume offers a nostalgic trek through time, with stops at drive-ins, old hotels and iconic storefronts along the way. Martinsville Memories doesn't stop at the city limits, but gives the reader a tour of surrounding communities such Collinsville, Ridgeway, Bassett, Spencer and Axton, as well.With a foreword by author and Martinsville native Stephen Mark Rainey, Martinsville Memories captures the triumphs and struggles of a city at the heart of the South and the soul of America.
The tragedy of the lost city : a story of the pioneer days of Martinsville
Author: Victor Moulder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description