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Texas State Highway 327 runs through downtown Silsbee south of the city center, leading east to US 96 and west 9 miles (14 km) to Kountze, the Hardin county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau , Silsbee has a total area of 7.7 square miles (20.0 km 2 ), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 0.64%, are water.
Marathon County Fairgrounds; Meadow Event Park; Mercer County Fairgrounds; Michigan State Fair Riding Coliseum, Dairy Cattle Building, and Agricultural Building; Monroe County Fairgrounds; Montana ExpoPark; Montana State Fairgrounds Racetrack; Muscatine County Fairgrounds
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. [4] [5]
The Texas State Fair Football Showdown took place on the third weekend of the 2018 and 2019 fair and featured Southern and Texas Southern. [14] In 2020, the Southern versus Texas Southern game moved to Arlington, Texas. The State Fair of Texas is the only fair in the United States to include a full auto show, dating back to 1913. [15]
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The fair was not held in 1917 or 1918 due to World War I, nor was it held from 1942 through 1945 due to World War II. In 2020, the state fair's board of directors announced the cancellation of the 2020 fair due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma. That year, the fair had only allowed junior livestock shows and certain vendors. [5]
All Sports Stadium was a stadium located at the State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.It had a capacity of 15,000 people and opened in 1961. It was named for the All-Sports Association, a nonprofit charged to recruit amateur and collegiate events to the city.
Jim Norick Arena (formerly Fairgrounds Arena) is a large multi-purpose arena located at State Fair Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Completed in 1965 at a cost of $2.4 million, it was the largest indoor facility in Oklahoma City until the construction of the Myriad Convention Center .