Robinson's trotting park may have been used for a short time period as the Augusta Fairgrounds. According to the history of Kennebec County, Robinson built his track in 1872. It was no longer maintained by 1892. Robinson's death was prior to this date.
In Clark Thompson's research of the early history of Maine's trotting industry he remembers reading that Robinson's track was used one year for the Augusta Fair. At the Northeast Horseman's Show Debbie Violette informed me that the property owned by her father, Ed Sliva was once an old fairground. Silva's land runs along South Belfast Avenue on the right after the four corners. Robinson's home in the 1879 map of Augusta, was on the left maybe five houses before the intersection. If anyone has any information on the old fairgrounds on South Belfast Avenue, please contract Stephen Thompson at lifework50@gmail.com.
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