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"Dade Park racetrack was located just south of Evansville, between the Kentucky state line and the Ohio River.* After a track and grandstand were completed in 1922, gambling and other illicit activity ensued; the river bottoms were physically isolated fromKentucky and out of jurisdiction for Indiana police. Ellis Park, renamed in 1954 after longtime owner James C. Ellis, still hosts live horse racing every season."(Engler, Joe. Evansville. (Postcard History Series) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012, p. 124) Because of a change in the course of the Ohio River after state boundaries were drawn, this track is north of the Ohio River, yet in Kentucky. This is postcard 1A1881-N.

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