Speedway Indiana

Speedway Indiana: The Raciest City in the Entire World

Speedway, Indiana took its name from the ultra-famous landmark within its boundaries on the northeast border, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A suburb of Indianapolis, the town of Speedway nevertheless boasts its own civil service and political organizations, such as a town council; school system; including Speedway Senior High School; parks and recreation department; library; utilities; street and fire department. In the 2000 census, the population of this small Midwestern town was put at 12,881. Speedway High School, home of the Sparkplugs, has some of the best sports teams in the area. Appropriate to the long history of the racetrack, the town was built by city planners to be a hospitable environment for the motor car, as far back as its inception in the 1820s. There were therefore asphalt-paved roads in place almost 200 years ago, as opposed to the brick-lined thoroughfares ubiquitous to other small towns across the Midwest. The modern garage, practical home for the family car, appeared in Speedway when other towns around it still built carriage houses for decades. The … Read More