Where the past and present meet in virginia welcome to the hampton inn martinsville the philpott lake is reason enough to visit the hampton inn hotel in martinsville the us army corps of engineers lake spans a whopping 2 888 acres and can claim 100 miles of shoreline its the place in town to go boating fishing swimming or water skiing a number of other parks near our hotel in martinsville offer other natural diversions as well the martinsville speedway founded the year before nasca