Benning Race Track

[1] Famous jockey Walter Miller won all five races during a Benning meet in 1906.

The track operated until Congress banished horse racing in the District in 1908.

In 1938, inventor Jonathan Edward Caldwell demonstrated his prototype Autogyro at the abandoned track.

In 1942, a developer bought the track to build the Mayfair Mansions apartment complex.

Mayfair Mansions opened in 1946, providing housing options for working and middle class African American families.