Greenville Drag Strip
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Held a Ladies' Day race in May 1962
- Raced
- 1962
- State
- North Carolina
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- On the site today
- Subdivision
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- early 1962
- Location
- South of Eastern Pines Road, off the Grimesland-Washington highway, three miles east of Greenville
- People
- L.T. Hardee, builder and operator (1962)
- Elevation
- 58 ft (18 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.56606, -77.31063
L.T. Hardee built and ran a drag strip three miles east of Greenville, off the Grimesland-Washington highway, in early 1962. Bill Kittrell, who knows Pitt County history well, gathered what’s known about it. He placed it south of Eastern Pines Road, in what’s now a subdivision, and said Hardee rented land from a Mr. Porter to lengthen the track. The strip can be seen on a 1993 aerial photo. Kittrell said the strip held a Ladies’ Day in May 1962, with four trophies in mixed classes. Entrants included Joan Darden, Irene Dixon, Evonne Dickerson, Barbara James, Gail Manning, Joanne Whichard, Vivian Stocks, Lucy Griffin and Billie West. Regular racers included Roy Darden, Tom Dixon, Ronnie Butler, “Pop” Whitt, Hubert Pulley and Junior Stocks. On June 17, 1962, Billy Cooper, 35, of Hampton, Virginia, was killed when he braked too soon after a run in his Super Super Stock ‘62 Plymouth, veered off the track and overturned. How long the track operated isn’t known.
