America’s largest airports were first farms, golf courses and race tracks


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While some people feel that U.S. airports are like aging dinosaurs, it turns out that some of these creatures may have eons ago roamed the lands where airports were eventually built.

Many of today's airports stretch across vast tracts of acreage that don't hold much interest for anyone but plane-spotters and aviation geeks. But before they housed commercial airports, some of these