12/20/2023 0 Comments Harvest foundation martinsville va![]() ![]() ![]() The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) and the Fayette Area Historical Initiative (FAHI) formed a partnership to use the humanities- literature, art, history, music, culture, but in this case, especially local history - to foster community development and redevelopment in the area. Still home to many of Martinsville’s African American citizens as well as a place for worship, Fayette Street however is not the vibrant center of the social and business centers that it once was, or could be again. THOUSANDS of men, women and children have lived and played, worked and prayed, raised families and said their goodbyes along this corridor of streets. Hairston’s – said to have once been “like Kroger’s” – is abandoned, as is the Paradise Inn, though neither has quite disappeared like the swimming pool and motel built at Sandy Beach where Fayette Street becomes simply Route 57 again. and Grace Presbyterian churches, oldest of the historic black churches on Fayette Street. ![]() It begins just above Prillaman’s meat market, passing by the memory of what was Baldwin’s Block between Moss and Barton, crossing under the new lights at Market Street, and catching up with Mount Zion A.M.E. Our history About the Fayette Area Historical InitiativeįAYETTE STREET runs along a two-mile stretch of road from the Courthouse Square uptown to the current Martinsville city limits at its west end. ![]()
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