Medal, Commemorative
Object number2009.63.1
Date2007
MediumBronze
Credit LineHeinz History Center Collection
DescriptionBronze medal commemorating The Meadows Racetrack and Delvin Miller.Dimensions1.875 x 0.125 x 1.875 in. (4.8 x 0.3 x 4.8 cm)InscriptionsObverse has embossed text "THE MEADOWS / DELVIN MILLER".
Reverse has embossed text "OPEN JUNE 28, 1963 / CLOSED AUGUST 11, 2007".
Historical NotesMedal commemorating the Meadows Racetrack in Washington County and its founder Delvin Miller. Delvin Miller was a local harness racing driver who won 2,442 races. More significantly, he is believed to be the only athlete to compete professionally in eight decades, having driven his first races in at the Burgettstown Fair and racing a mere three months before his death on August 19, 1996, at age 83. Miller introduced parimutuel harness racing to this area when The Meadows opened July 28, 1963, in Washington County. Four years later, he founded the Adios race named for his super-sire bay stallion; in 1997, the race was renamed the Coors Delvin Miller Adios. On a non-sporting note, Miller and his brother, Albert, who died in 1999, opened the Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life in Avella, Washington County, to the public in 1969. [Edited from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "Souls who enriched our lives, our region" --Sunday, December 1, 2002]
Related person
Delvin Miller
(1913 - 1996)
Subjects
On View
Not on view
c. 1980
c. 1950
c. 1945
c. 1945