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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.15.2010 - 11:48 am
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1/3 Mile Dirt Track. Was closed in 1962. Track is now a Junkyard.


  2.   Lynn Newsome posted:
  08.31.2013 - 4:55 pm
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This track was concidered a 3/8 mile. It was built back in the 50s by 4
men who got together and decided to build a track. My father Rex M.
Newsome was the President of this track and it was owned by him his
brother Hugh Allen Newsome, Robert McFarland and a Mapus man. My mother
sold the tickets, I sold the peanuts. My uncle Leslie worked the sign in
and infield.I can remember some of the drivers from back then. Two use
to come down from Kanopolis, NC Ralph Earnhardt and Bob Seamore and they
ran against some of our locals George Howle,Johnny King,Homar
Galloway,Hugh Allen Newsome, W.E. Talbert, Rock Raines and Florence,SC
Russell Blackmond. There were lots more of them and I wish I could
remember them all. CAN YOU HELP ME ? e-mail me ez4you2@yahoo.com


  3.   A posted:
  11.29.2020 - 7:20 am
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Track outline is faintly visible in the trees. There's still a road
called "Race Track Road" in Hartsville, SC, which is just a dead end.
The track was directly south of the road. Interestingly, today there are
several auto related businesses around the area of the old track.

This track was just 10 miles from Darlington, so it's probably not
surprising that it didn't last too long.


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