Georgia Racing Hall of Fame Museum

Have you checked out the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame Museum?  Immerse yourself in the history of on and off-road racing right in our own back yard!

Fasten your seatbelt! Imagine how it felt to be a moon tripper, outrunning the sheriff while speeding along a snaking white line in the moonlit hills of north Georgia. At the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame Museum, visitors can become prohibition outlaws without going to jail!

The museum, recognized by the Georgia state legislature as the official home of the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame—in addition to housing Dawsonville’s City Hall—features an entertaining multi-media presentation of the history of stock car racing in Dawson County Georgia.

After the historic town of Dawsonville purchased the foreclosed museum building from a tourist attraction, formerly known as Thunder Road, they reopened the museum and building in 2007, and they are now utilizing the back offices for administrative purposes.

But, before visitors even enter the large glass front of the spacious 40,000 square foot museum with its giant checked flag veranda, there is plenty to see outside where there is an array of vintage racing cars, and the Garden of Bricks and Winner’s Circle—both bearing plaques with the names of contributors to the museum’s creation.

Inside the museum, visitors will discover memorials to NASCAR racing greats, and several exhibits featuring the history and the machines of the prohibition moonshine runners that became racers and mechanics, and then NASCAR’s first drivers and team owners.

Additional attractions include the museum’s interactive games, racing simulators, Georgia racing artifacts, license plates, and street signs. There are also many old newspaper clips, video presentations, and numerous famous racecars that belonged to the prominent members of Georgia’s racing heritage who ran the blockades to deliver their illegal cargo from Dawson County south to Atlanta and north to Knoxville. There is even an old trailer-bound moonshine still.

 

Speed into the past.  Check out more information  and complete list of exhibits here or purchase tickets here!