Ed Knowles Opened Unity Raceway for the 1949 Racing Season

Last night Bob Knowles, owner of the Unity Raceway from 1960 to 1980 met me prior to the Lost Trotting Parks Presentation at the Unity Historical Society. He provided the images for the following storyboards. Ed Knowles hosted the Unity Fair in 1951. If you examine these photos closely you will see many of the buildings associated with the Unity Trotting Park. A large house was located across from the trotting park. The barns were used to house some of the trotting horses. The long el attached to the house across the street was once used as a dance hall.