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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.
Location of Penobscot County in Maine. This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Penobscot County, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Bangor (/ ˈ b æ ŋ ɡ ɔːr / BANG-gor) is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States.The city proper has a population of 31,753, [3] making it the state's third-most populous city, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121).
Map of Maine's counties. There are approximately 1,600 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Maine. Each of the state's 16 counties has more than forty listings on the National Register. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted February 21, 2025.
The fair began in 1977 in Litchfield, Maine. In 1981, it moved to Windsor, Maine and in 1996, MOFGA purchased 200 acres in Unity, Maine, where the fair now takes place yearly. [3] The first fair was held at the Litchfield Fairgrounds as a fundraiser for MOFGA. It raised $22,000. [4] In 2016, a Portland Press Herald article about the fair's ...
Curtis marketed his product as "State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum". [25] He later opened a successful gum factory in Portland, Maine. Coincidentally, Bangor-born Frank Barbour, who became a director (and later chairman of the board) of the Beech-Nut Packing Company, would launch that company's famous chewing gum line in 1910
The Connors House (also known as a Former Home for Aged Women) is a historic house at 277 State Street in Bangor, Maine.Built about 1866–67, it is a fine example of the "Bangor style" of Second Empire architecture, notable as the last known work of architect Benjamin S. Deane, and as the home of Edward Connors, operator of Bangor's log boom and the city's wealthiest Irish-American.
The Great Fire of 1911 Historic District is located in downtown Bangor, Maine, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. It preserves Maine's most significant collection of early 20th century public and commercial buildings, and commemorates an urban re-building campaign matched only by Portland's following its ...