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Canfield Speedway is a half mile dirt oval racetrack that hosted (major) sanctioned auto racing from 1950 to 1964, but other associations ran until the late 1970s. There was also a 1/4 mile dirt racing surface that shared the front stretch with the 1/2 mile track.
In April 1975, the owners sold closed racetrack to Center Associates of Youngstown, Ohio for $1.15 million, which would help facilitate the construction of a Hills department store, requiring 17 acres (6.9 ha) of the speedway land. [7] The Hills would be a part of a new shopping center on Route 50 that would cost $3 million and contain 12 stores.
Harold Smith (diver) (1909–1958), American diver and Olympic gold medalist Harold Smith (gridiron football) (born 1962), American football player Harold Smith (sprinter) (born 1893), American sprinter also known as Harold Carman, 2nd in the 220 yards at the 1915 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
From 1950 to 1993, Pisgah Home was operated by the Rev. Harold James Smith; Smith published the "Herald of Hope" newspaper (with a reported circulation of 60,000) from the Pisgah Home and his "Prayer Tower" radio broadcasts also emanated from the Pisgah Home property.
The Smith System is a defensive driving strategy [1] created in 1952 by Harold L. Smith. [2] [3] Smith's goal was to increase the safety of commercial drivers. [2]After he opened the Safeway Driving School in Detroit in 1948, [4] Smith established the Smith System Driver Improvement Institute in 1952.
1880: Joseph Binney sets up headquarters in New York City, joined by son Edwin Binney and nephew C. Harold Smith. [2] 1885: Joseph Binney retires; Edwin and C. Harold Smith, form a partnership and call their company Binney & Smith. [3] Early products include red oxide pigment used in barn paint and carbon black used for car tires.
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Workers leaving the Manhattan Project's Y-12 plant on 11 August 1945. The Clinton Engineer Works (CEW) was the production installation of the Manhattan Project that during World War II produced the enriched uranium used in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, as well as the first examples of reactor-produced plutonium.