GROVETON

I have only been to the track in Groveton, New Hampshire on one occasion,. and that was back when Mike Beattie was promoting it. I thought the track was fine, the personnel were great, and the competition was entertaining. Back in those days, the drivers included Bob Ailes, about the only guy I knew over there. I think Floyd Bennett and George Stone were other stars of that era. I understand it is a lot different today. I would imagine Freddie Mills was among the first stars at the track. I need a lot of help getting early Groveton participants and - for that matter - any participants up to 1987.
Established in 1964, the track hastened the already - certain demise of Vermont's Northeastern Speedway, in Lower Waterford. Riversides' connection to Vermont is unmistakable - all the way from its close proximity to Northeastern Speedway in Lower Waterford - through the Can-Am Speedway era - to today, when several drivers split time between Thunder Road and Riverside.

Terraserver Satellite Photo - USGS
Grovetona, pretty much, the way it has always looked.

Historic Aerials.Com
Newer shot - same thing.

Courtesy of Cho Lee
Groveton's Freddie Mills would obviously be one of it first stars.

Courtesy of Cho Lee Some of Groveton's first stars would include Johnny Gammell, Mutt Dexter, and Harold Hanaford.	Courtesy of Cho Lee St. Johnsbury's Dwayne Remick would have run Groveton regularly.	Courtesy of Cho Lee St. Johnsbury's George Horn probably had some of his first runs at Riverside.	Norman McIver Portrait Courtesy of Cho Lee Lyndonville's Jerry Bigelow was almost certainly an early Riverside runner.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Freddie Mills, shown here in a B class car at Northeastern, probably ran it at Groveton in Year I.	Courtesy of Cho Lee The NH Ingerson brothers likely tried their hands at Riverside.
	Great North Woods Journal Photo Mike Beattie	Stygles Family Photo via George Hill Ralphie Stygles	Stygles Family Photo via George Hill Ralphie Stygles	Phyllis Colby Photo via George Hill Cy Colby

Great North Woods Journal Photo
Mike Beattie, as track owner, accepts keys to the latest pace car. Love the hair. Something tells me that computer cursor wasn't there in the '70's.

Ladabouche Photo Don Kenison, a regular at Groveton, was also running at Newport, VT's rustic Can-Am Speedway, on Charlie Nadeau's landfill.	Ladabouche Photo St. Johnsbury's Bob Ailes, a regular at Groveton, leads the pack of late models at Can-Am. Groveton runner Bob Turner is in the rear.	Ladabouche Photo New Hampshire's ancient Silvio Bilodeau, an original entrant at T Road and Northeastern, had this old Chevelle at Can-Am. He was supposedly running at Groveton then.	Ladabouche Photo Groveton driver Bob Turner[333] looks to avoid #70, another Groveton car.	Courtesy of Bruno LaCroix Granby runner Denis Belleville spent some time running Groveton. That is he in the #351 in photo above.	Ladabouche Photo Granby regular, Keyworth George, from Rock Island, QU had the 41 Mopar.
Bob Dickie Photo With a name like Bennett, the driver shown above is likely to be a Groveton man.	A and A Ward Photo A Groveton late model [70] looks for room among Granby cars. The 351 is Groveton runner, Denis Belleville.	Northland Journal Photo by Bob Dickie The crew and fans of Denis Belleville pose for a shot at Can-Am Speedway.	Great North Woods Journal Photo Pete Moulton


Source Unknown Waitsfield, Vt's Owen Wimble receives his hardware from Dick Therrien in 2005.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Vermont's Reno Gervais wins another feature in 2008, splitting time with running T Road, as well.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Milton, Vt's Don Franklin [a former student of yours truly] leads the way in a 2008 race.	Courtesy of A and A Ward A Barracuda entry. Rare car. Don't know the division it's in.
Courtesy of A and A Ward Similar to what T Road calls a Tiger Sportsman. This is around 2004, hence - the old body style.	Courtesy of A and A Ward Similar to what T Road calls a Tiger Sportsman. This is around 2004, hence - the old body style. Mark Barnier chases another T Road car.	Courtesy of A and A Ward Mendon, VT 's Jacob McGrath runs against Riverside regular Owen Wimble.	Courtesy of A and A Ward Clearly a Caron car from Vermont. I bet it is Kyle, son of Gary. Could be Gary.
Courtesy of A and A Ward The Riverside equivalent of a T Road Street Stock early qualifier plays to a sparse early - program crowd.	Courtesy of A and A Ward Can't tell what these actually are ... good looking cars, though.	Courtesy of A and A Ward Dwarf car action.	Courtesy of A and A Ward Similar to what Airborne calls a Renegade class, I would guess.
Courtesy of A and A Ward Award winners: Mike Kenison, Corey Mason and Reno Gervais.


Courtesy of A and A Ward RIverside apparently used to host PASS event [and may still] Mike Rowe, Rick Martin, and Johnny Clark.