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In the valley 500 yards north, many kinds of frontier diversions were held, including racing on a half-mile semicircular track. Here, in 1788, Andrew Jackson, then 21 years old, rode his horse in a match race against a horse belonging to Col. Robert Love and ridden by a professional jockey. Jackson lost.
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Erwin, Tennessee · United States
