Miller's Ferry Drag Strip (Camden)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Jack Cooley set a strip record of 12.1 seconds at 120.7 mph on June 2, 1963
- Raced
- 1963-69
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- Outline of an abandoned airfield visible in aerial photos
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Former Craig Army Auxiliary Airfield #3 (later Henderson Airport), off Highway 28 beside the Alabama River and West Ferry Marina, about nine miles northwest of Camden
- People
- Jerry Coley, operator (ca. 1963-)
- Elevation
- 89 ft (27 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.11641, -87.37868
Drag racing was going on by 1963, possibly earlier, at Craig Army Auxiliary Airfield #3, a World War II field. The Army sold the property after the war and it became Henderson Airport. Once that airport closed, its 4,000-foot runway was used for drag racing and cleaned off now and then for races. It sat just off Highway 28 beside the Alabama River and West Ferry Marina. Jerry Coley ran the strip for a few years starting around 1963. On June 2, 1963, Jack Cooley set a strip record of 12.1 seconds at 120.7 mph in his 427 Chevy. The Swedish magazine Start & Strip included it in a 1968 list of 325 U.S. drag strips. Aerial photos show what looks like the outline of an abandoned airfield at East Bank, or Miller’s Ferry, about nine miles northwest of Camden.
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