1911 Indianapolis 500 champ Ray Harroun is alive again in the new book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," (
These are images of some of the amazing scenes of real estate development as Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Carl Fisher and his team willed one of the greatest sports facilities on Earth to rise up out of a farm field in four months.
This image originally appeared in the Saturday, December 18, 1909, Indianapolis Star. It shows Indiana Governor Thomas Marshall performing the ceremonial placement of the final one of 3.2 million bricks to complete the massive paving project of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.