When looking for information on location of old race tracks, you might also try Hill's Directory .
I was already familiar with this tool because the directory HQ for many years were located on Clay Street in Richmond, Va.
The Hill Directory Company of Richmond (now Hill-Donnelly) published huge bound business to business volumes selling for $25-$40 or so primarily for sale to businesses utilizing them as sales prospecting tools.
The Hill's Directories are sort of a glorified combo of yellow page display and classified ads, business listings and residential listings. There are categories for Amusements (which sometimes include racetracks) and all other imaginable categories. I especially enjoy looking at the display ads for garages, car dealers and grocery stores.
These directories were produced for many years on a yearly basis. Many University Archives have editions that can be searched on line. In North Carolina, a number of the various North Carolina University Archives of the Hill's Directories starting back in the 1920s have been lumped together at a single site:
http://www.digitalnc.org/collections/city-directories/
Eric Cardona... you'll even find a Raeford, NC directory for one year. There are years of Fayetteville directories to keep you busy looking for racetrack listings.
The University of Virginia Library also has an archive of Hill's Directories.
You'll have to have a heck of a lot of patience to navigate through these directories, but you might find a gem of a ghost track or garage.
You can also enter the search terms Hill's Directory and the city or county into a search engine and see what pops up.
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:08:38PM
