- City:
- Nashville, TN
- Site Type:
- Stadiums, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Now a standard Nashville tradition, Iroquois Steeplechase traces roots back to 1936, when Marcellus Frost suggested a racecourse to take over a piece of Warner Parks.
Mason Houghland, master of the Hillsboro Hounds, along with foxhunter Con. Thompson Ball, and President Franklin Roosevelt confidant Harry Hopkins created the course in response, as a parks improvement project of the Works Progress Administration.
The race has continued each year since, except in 1945 due to World War II.” (https://www.tennessean.com)
Source notes
https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/2015/04/23/iroquois-steeplechase-historical-tradition/25545809/
https://nashville.about.com/od/historyandsites/a/iroquoishistory.htm
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