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Martinsville, IN - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Martinsville  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Martinsville Home page. The Martinsville Home page provides as much information as possible on Martinsville. Knowing Martinsville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Martinsville’s Home page, you will also find Martinsville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Martinsville has a population of 11807. 50.1% of Martinsville’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.9 are female. 43.4% of Martinsville is married and 60.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $110,166, and the average rent is $743. Household median income in Martinsville is $50,264, and the individual median income is $26,835. Martinsville’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.6%), Hispanic(1.3%), Multiple(0.9%), Black(0.6%), Other(0.6%), Asian(0.4%).


Historically, Martinsville was the place of some racial controversies, such as the 1968 murder of 20-year-old African American Carol Jenkins, who was stabbed to death with a screwdriver while selling encyclopedias door-to-door. Jenkins' murder remained unsolved for 33 years until Kenneth Richmond was arrested for the crime.


Richmond was a Hendricks County resident who was passing through Martinsville on the night Jenkins was murdered. The white couple Don and Norma Neal, who called the police to try to help Carol a half-hour before she died, proposed a monument in Carol's memory on the courthouse grounds. The County Commissioners approved (2-1), the dissenting vote remarking it was the responsibility of the city not the county in the location for the monument.


When many citizens contacted the commissioners later with similar feelings to that effect, the project was put on hold. In November 2017, Martinsville partnered with Carol's hometown of Rushville to hold memorial events in Carol's honor with her family present. Martinsville also dedicated a monument in Carol's memory and presented a smaller replica of the stone to Carol's family.


That year, the Indianapolis Star reported that Martinsville still had a reputation among African Americans as a sundown town.Many Martinsville residents dispute the reputation for racism and prejudice pointing out an annual award for service to the community named after a beloved African American citizen, Albert Merritt, who had a club for Martinsville boys in the 1930s.


They also report the welcoming of all people from all races, sexual orientations, and religions. The high school's LGBTQ club was the highest charter in 2015, and town leaders have approved anti-discrimination laws to protect LGBT people.


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