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Heidelburg Race Track

1953/1963

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Heidelburg Race Track
  • Title
  • Heidelburg Race Track
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F19.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F19.I01
  • Description
  • Heidelburg Race Track (pictured here), located in Heidelburg, Pennsylvania, held the seventh NASCAR Winston Cup event in its initial year on October 2, 1949. Residents who lived near the track often complained about the loud noise and dust levels that the track created during racing events. Interstate Highway 79 now passes directly through this site and a strip mall is located nearby. Heidelberg is a borough located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, with a total population of 1225 in the year 2000.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Heidelburg Race Track (Pa.)
    Stock car racing--Pennsylvania--Heidelburg.
    Racetracks (Automobile racing)--Pennsylvania--Heidelberg.
    Corvette automobile--Pennsylvania--Heidelburg.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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