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During this period the foundry, the hospital, and the Horsham Agricultural Society were established, with the first Horsham show held in 1876. [20] Geoffrey Blainey , notes in his History of Victoria , that the Victorian railway building boom of the 1870s enabled large-scale wheat production to begin in the Wimmera. [ 18 ]
It held its first annual agricultural show, the Fair and Cattle Show, at Guildford on 7 November 1834. [1] [2] [3] The show was moved to the Claremont Showground in 1905, [4] when it became the Perth Royal Show. [5] [6] In 1907, a range of other agricultural societies merged. [7] Despite the action, separate agricultural societies remain ...
Postcard of Horse Exhibit Hall at the Great Allentown Fair at the Allentown Fairgrounds in 1909. The Lehigh County Agricultural Society hosted the first fair from October 6 to October 8, 1852, on Livingston's Lawn, a 5-acre (20,000 m 2) plot located east of Fourth Street, between Walnut and Union Streets, in Allentown.
The annual county show takes place on the second Thursday of September at the Society's showground and is said to be "one of the largest one day Shows in the Country". [3] [4] It includes competitive classes for heavy and light horses, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, dogs, alpacas, rural crafts and Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling.
This is a list of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Rural City of Horsham in Victoria, Australia. The Victorian Heritage Register is maintained by the Heritage Council of Victoria . The Victorian Heritage Register, as of 2020, lists the following seven state-registered places within the Rural City of Horsham : [ 1 ]
The Horsham Friends Meeting is an historic American Quaker meeting house which is located in Horsham, Pennsylvania. Home to the Horsham Monthly Meeting, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 21, 1991.
The Royal Show, also known as the Royal Agricultural Show, was an annual agricultural show held by the Royal Agricultural Society of England every year from 1839 to 2009. [4] The event covered all aspects of farming, food production and rural living, from British livestock to business methods and technology used in the farming industry.
The Topsfield Fair is known as America's Oldest County Fair. Started in 1818 by the Essex County Agricultural Society, the Topsfield Fair was originally a one-day cattle show. [1] The goal of the society was to showcase agriculture in order to educate the public as well as provide somewhere for farmers to exchange ideas and methods.