This weekend Dawsonville native Raymond Parks will be officially etched into the granite of NASCAR history when he is inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. The ceremony will be held at 8 p.m., Jan. 20 at the Charlotte Convention Center. In May the announcement came that Parks would posthumously be a part of the 2017 class, joining fellow Dawsonville native Bill Elliott. Parks died June 20,2010 at the age of 96.
Raymond Parks to be inducted this weekend