[1] The Cunningham Highway passes through the south-eastern corner of Raceview, entering from Blackstone and exiting to Flinders View.

[4] The origin of the suburb name is from an early racecourse at the end of Grange Road, which later relocated to Bundamba.

[5] During World War II, American military personnel who died in or near Australia were buried in a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) extension of Ipswich General Cemetery as a temporary arrangement until their bodies could be returned to the United States after the war.

Mrs Rose Manson, who lived in nearby Salisbury Street, placed flowers on the graves every Sunday and wrote letters to their next-of-kin in the USA, reporting on the burial ceremonies and sending them photos of the cemetery.

[6] Many of the families wrote back to her, some sending seeds from their gardens, which she grew to provide flowers for the graves.

In May 1947, Mrs Mason left Sydney on the Marine Phoenix for a six-month tour of all of the states of the USA.

[7][8] In November and December 1947, 1397 American war dead were exhumed from the cemetery, embalmed, placed in steel coffins, and taken on the ship Gauchec Victory to the United States for permanent burial with military honours.

In 1971, Major J. Watson of the United States Air Force placed a commemorative plaque in the park.