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<br />'-. ; I <br />L.O <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />ADJUST 13. 1968 <br /> <br />The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, <br /> <br />--- <br /> <br />Virginia, with Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D., presiding, was held Tuesday, August <br /> <br />13, 1968, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all <br /> <br />members being present, viz., Dr. F. T. Renick, Mayor; Mr. E. E. Stone, <br /> <br />Vice-Mayor; Mr. Harry L. Boaz; Mr. W. Donald Hartford; and Mr. Francis T. West. <br /> <br />After the invocation, Council approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular <br /> <br />meeting held July 23, 1968. <br /> <br />Continuing its consideration of the proposal offered July 23, 1968, by Mr. <br /> <br />R. P. Gravely, Jr., that a museum be established for Martinsville and Henry <br /> <br />County, possibly in the East Martinsville Elementary School if abandoned for <br /> <br />school purposes, Council received the following prepared statement from <br /> <br />Mr. Gravely: <br /> <br />The recorded history of Martinsville and Henry County is long and full <br />of interest, dating back to 1728 when William Byrd's Boundary Survey <br />party passed through the area and gave to many of the natural features-- <br />rivers, streams, and mountains--the names which they still bear. <br />Evidence abounds of the occupation of this part of the state by <br />Indian tribes in the prehistoric period from as long ago as 9,000 - <br />10,000 B.C. until the first penetration of the Piedmont by European <br />explorers and traders in the second half of the seventeenth century. <br /> <br />The geology and minerology of the area is as complex and varied as any <br />in the state. <br /> <br />There is a wide variety of plant and animal life, some of which is <br />disappearing as the Country is becoming urbanized, which can be recorded <br />or preserved in specimen form. <br /> <br />The Cultural remains of the prehistoric and historic <br />varied, and of universal interest to young and old. <br />lations of these items exist, and many more could be <br />gift if adequate facilities were available for their <br /> <br />periods are numerous, <br />Considerable accumu- <br />acquired by loan or <br />storage and display. <br /> <br />Present plans call for the abandonment of some of the city school buitlings <br />which might be well adapted to conversion at little expense to a local <br />museum. If there is any chance that any of these buildings can be obtained <br />for use as a public museum, and there is sufficient interest on the part of <br />