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From now until the end of summer, you can catch a variety of fairs across the Southern Tier, or travel to Syracuse for the Great New York State Fair.
The New York State Fair, also known as the Great New York State Fair, is a 13-day showcase of agriculture, entertainment, education, and technology.With midway rides, concessionaires, exhibits, and concerts, it has become New York's largest annual event and an end-of-summer tradition for hundreds of thousands of families from all corners of the state.
Dutchess County Fair – Rhinebeck, New York; El Dorado County Fair – Placerville, California; Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Goshen, Indiana; Erie County Fair – Hamburg, New York; Farm Progress Show – Dacatur and Boone, Iowa (alternate years) Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo – Fort Worth, Texas; Fulton County Fair – Wauseon, Ohio
The Erie County Fair is a fair held in Hamburg in Erie County, New York, every August. Based on 2018 attendance statistics, The Erie County Fair is the second largest fair in New York and the fourth largest county fair in North America, [ 1 ] often drawing over one million in attendance.
A major activity of the society is running the annual New York State Fair. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first such fair was held in 1841, in Syracuse, and drew 10,000 attendees over two days. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The second was held in Albany, with Auburn, Buffalo, Elmira, New York City, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Watertown and Utica all hosting ...
The Empire Expo Center (also known as the New York State Fairgrounds) is an exhibition ground located in Geddes, a suburb of Syracuse, New York. It features eight exhibition halls and 375 acres (1.52 km 2 ) of ground space, which are used year-round for exhibitions and trade fairs .
The fair promoted on a period post card, c. 1930–1945. The first Eastern States Exposition occurred in October 1916 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and was called the Eastern States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition. All six New England states, plus Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, participated. [3]
The Alex T. Duffy Fairgrounds [2] is a multi-purpose facility in Watertown, New York, spanning 67 acres. The stadium capacity is 3,500. [ 3 ] It contains the longest-running fair in the United States, The Jefferson County Fair , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and was named after Alex T. Duffy.