Huge Crowd Attends First Races at Floyd Speedway; Bill Meyers Wins Sportsmen's, Joe Hill Cops Amateur
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Title
Huge Crowd Attends First Races at Floyd Speedway; Bill Meyers Wins Sportsmen's, Joe Hill Cops Amateur
Description
Article about the Inaugural race of the Floyd Speedway
Creator
Floyd Press
Coverage
Floyd Speedway, Floyd, Virginia
GNIS Latitude: 36.9273552
GNIS Longitude: -80.320605
Date
June 3, 1954
Subject
Floyd Speedway (Floyd, Va.)
Racetracks (Automobile racing)--Virginia--Floyd
Stock car racing--Virginia--Floyd
Automobile racing drivers
NASCAR racing
Type
Text
Publisher
Floyd Press
Source
Floyd Press, June 3, 1954, pp. 1 and 5.
Rights
Copyrighted material—for Virginia Tech educational use only.
Language
English
Format
jpeg
Identifier
Floyd-first-race
Floyd-first-race-con't
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
Newspaper story
Original Format
Newsprint
Neatline Time Date
June 3, 1954
Provenance
DeHart Collection
Brian Katen Collection
Files
Collection
Citation
Floyd Press, “Huge Crowd Attends First Races at Floyd Speedway; Bill Meyers Wins Sportsmen's, Joe Hill Cops Amateur,” Virginia Tech Digital Humanities Omeka, accessed June 6, 2026, https://dhomeka.lib.vt.edu/items/show/26.