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Historical Highway MarkersRacelandS-46
Nearby stands Raceland, also known as Rice's Tavern, built ca. 1750. The building originally was a simple story-and-a-half dwelling with a hall-and-parlor plan. Subsequent additions transformed it into a two-story Federal-style house. It has been used as a tavern and private home. William "Racer Billy" Wynn, renowned owner of fine horses during the early 19th century, lived here. Wynn had stables and a racetrack on the property and briefly owned Timoleon, considered one of the fastest Thoroughbreds of the 1810s.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Raceland, National Register of Historic Places Nomination File (26-85), DHR; Dinwiddie County “The Countrey of the Apamatica” Complied by the Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Whittlet & Shepperson, 1942), 78-79, 235-236; Balie Peyton, Making the American Thoroughbred, Especially in Tennessee, 1800-1845… (Nashville, Tn.: Grainger Williams, 1946), 59-61. |