I Live Here Because Of Winn-Dixie

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #216

Martinsville, Virginia is a small city in the state’s rural southwest, much of which is or was coal country. However, Martinsville had other industry. This, from the Wikipedia page for the city, is fascinating:

DuPont in 1941 built a large manufacturing plant for producing textile nylon filament, a vital war material. During the Cold War, the city was id…