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The Fairgrounds originated in 1856 with the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. In the early 1880s, the association fell upon hard times and was replaced with the St. Louis Fair and Jockey Club. [2] In 1901, Cap Tilles, Sam W. Adler, and Louis A. Cella, the principal owners of Delmar Racing Track, purchased the St. Louis ...
The event originally named "V.P. Fair" was a successor to the Veiled Prophet Parade, [3] which began as a St. Louis civic celebration in 1878. [4] The first V.P. Fair took place in 1981. [5] In September 1994, the name would be changed to Fair St Louis for subsequent years.
St. Louis Renaissance Festival Missouri: Wentzville; permanent 16th-century Petit Lyon, France during a visit from King François I: 1999 stages (09a) mid-September–mid-October 50k: St. Louis Renaissance Faire: Sarasota Medieval Fair Florida: Woods of Mallaranny, Myakka City; permanent Medieval Period, 9th - 15th Century: 2005
St. Louis Fair Grounds, site of annual Exposition, in an 1874 print. The Saint Louis Exposition or St. Louis Expo was a series of annual agricultural and technical fairs held in St. Louis' Fairgrounds Park, from the 1850s to 1902. In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a major World's Fair, was held in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual ...
Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present site of the St. Louis Fairground Park. Before the Civil War, the site was owned and used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association , which at the time was located on the ...
Six Flags St. Louis: October 19, 1988 — [30] Frontier City: October 7, 1989 — [31] Six Flags Great America: October 19, 1991 — [32] Six Flags Great Adventure: October 17, 1992 — [33] Six Flags Magic Mountain: October 16, 1993 — [34] Six Flags Fiesta Texas: October 1996 — [35] Six Flags Darien Lake: October 1998 — [36] [a] Six ...
The Negro Leagues played its first East-West All-Star Game on Sept. 10, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, and the last one was held in 1962, before the league shuttered.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $509 million in 2023) [ 1 ] were used to finance the event.