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9 NPS Form 10 -900•a `g OMB Approval No. 1024 -0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Occoneechee Speedway Orange County, N.C. Section number 7 Page 6 H. Overall Site 1948 Contributing Site The speedway site consists of the road network and the fence. The fence is constructed of wooden posts supporting sheets of corrugated 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 speedway property contains a system of one -lane dirt roads, now narrowed by encroaching vegetation resulting from disuse, that allowed drivers, support staff, race officials and spectators to enter and exit the facility. The original entrance route is the most visible corridor and it extends from Elizabeth Brady Road in a northeastward direction until it empties on the southwest turn of the track. The exit road, which also served as the route spectators took to the parking lot that was located between the entrance and exit, is more overgrown and narrower and extends from the entrance road northward, taking a sharp west - northwest turn just south of the ticket office and exiting the property in the paved parking lot of an office park located at the northern end of Elizabeth Brady Road. Although encroaching vegetation resulting from disuse has narrowed these roads, this system was a crucial part of the smooth operation of the Occoneechee Speedway.