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It is located on Arkansas Highway 135, east of Paragould, with racing occurring (in season and weather permitting) every Sunday. Its facilities include a concrete racing strip 2,960 feet (900 m) long and 31 feet (9.4 m) wide, with bleachers along the sides and a spectator catwalk (an original feature dating to its early years). [2]
Paragould is the county seat of Greene County, and the 19th-largest city in Arkansas, in the United States. The city is located in northeastern Arkansas on the eastern edge of Crowley's Ridge , a geologic anomaly contained within the Arkansas Delta .
Location of Greene County in Arkansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Greene County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
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Top Gas (T/G) is a former NHRA drag racing professional class.. Analogous to Top Fuel, Top Gas was a pro class, and allowed dragsters (T/GD) as well as bodied cars.. Several noteworthy cars ran in Top Gas.
The former Greene County Courthouse is located at Courthouse Square in the center of Paragould, the county seat of Greene County, Arkansas. It is a large two-story Georgian Revival structure, built out of red brick. It has a low-pitch hip roof with small gables at three corners, as well as above the entrances.
Born in Shawnee Township, Illinois, Golden joined the US Marines and first became interested in drag racing while at Camp Pendleton. [2]Golden was given his "Maverick" nickname in the late 1950s by an announcer at a Southern California dragstrip, because he chose to drive an unconventional 361 cu in (5,920 cc)-powered Dodge Custom Royal. [2]
The Paragould Downtown Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic central business district of Paragould, Arkansas.The city was organized in 1882 around the intersection of two railroad lines, which lies in the southwestern portion of this district.