Each Christmas, community residents, businesses and organizations vie for the opportunity to adopt one of 52 downtown lamp posts and decorate it for the season. It's a fun and festive way to put ourselves and Downtown Martinsville in the holiday spirit.

How to Participate
Sponsors who adopted a lamp post the previous year and successfully completed all requirements of the program will be sent an invitation to renew for the current year. Renewal deadline will be enforced in order to allow new participants in this popular program.

Previous year sponsors who fail to meet re-adoption date will automatically placed on the waiting list. Click here.

Potential new participants must request to be placed on the waiting list beginning August 1st. Click here.

*Fill out a Reservation Form and IPep Form found at the bottom of this page, follow directions, and mail forms and payment into Rediscover Martinsville. 

2025 Schedule
September 16th
  • Invitations to renew will be emailed to previous year adoptees who successfully completed all requirements of the program
  • Waiting list requests may be submitted. 

September 30th, Tuesday, 9 pm.
  • Deadline for early renewals.

 October 1st - 10th
  • Those on waiting list will be contacted via email on a first come, first served basis until all lamp posts are assigned. Potential participants will have 10 days to submit all completed paperwork and payment. If these are not received within ten days, you will be released from the program.

November 15th, Saturday  
  • Decorating begins

November 26th, Wednesday, Midnight
  •  Decorating must be complete

January 2nd, 2026, Thursday
  • Decorations may begin to be removed

January 14th, 2026, Wednesday by Midnight
  • Deadline for removal of decorations. All decorations not removed will become the property of Rediscover Martinsville.
*Forms: