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51 NPS Farm 10 -900.a OMB Approval No. 1024 -0018 (8 -88) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 3 Occoneechee Speedway Orange County, N.C. function. Approximately twelve feet from the eastern edge of the building is the original main spectator entrance through a five -foot break in a fence. The fence is constructed of wooden posts supporting sheets of metal that originally stood approximately eight feet tall, but have buckled over time and stand at only half that height now. This fence line begins at the lower edge of the property where the southern curve of the track meets the dirt road from Elizabeth Brady Road. It continues to the north, breaks at the entrance near the ticket office, and then continues to the northern edge of the speedway property stopping approximately ten yards short of the river at the natural ridge line. The women's restroom, located southeast of the ticket office and inside the metal fence, is nearly ruinous, but continues to evince its original function. The concession stand, located east - northeast of and downhill from the women's restroom, stands in poor condition. It retains its cinderblock foundation and some of the original wooden wall material. INVENTORY The buildings and structures in the following inventory are described beginning with the easternmost resources. The inventory then proceeds to the west. Each resource is assigned a letter that is then keyed to the site plan included in this nomination. Each inventory entry includes the date of construction of the resource, its description and its contributing status to the significance of the Occoneechee Speedway. A resource's contributing or noncontributing status depends on its age and/or integrity. If its date of construction falls outside the period of significance, it is listed as noncontributing. A resource that has lost integrity because of extreme deterioration will be deemed noncontributing. A. Track Structure 1948 Contributing Structure The racetrack, dirt banking and culverts form the track structure. A continuous dirt bank extending north to south along the eastern edge of the track was built to prevent cars from going off the track while at the same time allowing them to maintain their speed in the comers of the track. The banks are approximately four feet wide and two feet higher than the track and seven feet higher than the Eno River plain in most places. While vegetation grows on portions of the banking, it remains visually prominent. Three small round culverts used to drain water from the inner field into the Eno River remain intact in the dirt banking on the east side of the track. Evenly spaced along the banking, the