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The Mississippi State Fair is the state fair of the U.S. state of Mississippi each October. [1] History. The fair was founded in 1858. The fair went on hiatus in 1917 ...
It is in Mississippi Valley State census-designated place, in unincorporated Leflore County, [15] in the Mississippi Delta region. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Itta Bena . The university is about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Greenwood , about 50 miles (80 km) from Greenville , about 100-mile (160 km) north of Jackson , and about 120-mile (190 km ...
The fair offers a little bit of everything for everybody.
Davenport Speedway is a quarter-mile dirt race track located in Davenport, Iowa.. In 1953, the half-mile track which is no longer used, became the first track in Iowa to host a NASCAR sanctioned event, when it held a Grand National Series race.
The Mississippi State Fair in Jackson is approaching fast. As fairgoers await its arrival, the question stands, "Can fairgoers expect something new?"
Davenport (US: / ˈ d æ v ən p ɔːr t / DA-vən-port) is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States.Located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state, it is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area with a population of 384,324 and a combined statistical area population of 474,019, ranking as the 147th-largest MSA and 91st-largest CSA ...
The company represents a merger in 2004 of several midway companies, including part of Conklin Shows, the former Farrow Shows from Jackson, Mississippi, and Thebault-Blomsness (Astro Amusements and All Star Amusements). Later acquisitions were Mid America Shows and part of Cumberland Valley Shows.
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009.