Forsyth County Drag Strip/Cumming Dragway

This 1960s strip, five miles northwest of Cumming, is now a housing development. Built in 1962, it opened as Forsyth County Drag Strip and was called Cumming Dragway from 1964 until it closed in 1973. Lights went up in 1964 for Saturday night racing. The track regularly booked big names like Eddie Schartman, Don Nicholson, Hubert Platt, Tommy Ivo, Pete Robinson, E. J. Potter and Art Malone, along with plenty of pro stock cars. Lamar Sexton owned it, and Phil Bonner, Jr. recalled that his father, who drove funny cars, used to land his airplane at the dragway since Sexton was a friend. In 1975 the 43-acre property went up for sale, advertised as an excellent spot for a private airport because of its 3,100-foot strip. Sometime between 1980 and 1993 it became Cumming Airfield, using the 3,200-foot asphalt drag strip as its runway. Drag racing historian Bret Kepner called it one of the very rare cases of a drag strip becoming an airport instead of the reverse, though he dated the closing to the late 1960s.