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This file appears in: Cycling Races at Audubon Driving Park Race Track 1887-1890


This file appears in: Cycling Races at Audubon Driving Park Race Track 1887-1890

Cycling Races at Audubon Driving Park Race Track 1887-1890

By Lacar Musgrove
The Audubon Driving Park Track was used in the late 1880s as a horse racing track. ("Driving" referred to horse riding.) Audubon Park, built in 1879, had been the site of the World's Industrial Cotton…

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