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The 2005 Missouri State Fair. The state considered locating the fair in Centralia, Chillicothe, Marshall, Mexico, Moberly, and Sedalia. Cities made offers on the amounts of land they would commit to the fair. After ten ballots, Sedalia received the majority vote; it had bid 150 acres (0.61 km 2), the most land of any city
A number of newspapers have been published in Sedalia, in alphabetical order: The Daily Democrat (1871–1873) The Independent Press (1871–1873) The Pacific Enterprise (1863–1864) The Sedalia Advertiser (1864–1865) The Sedalia Bazoo (1881–1895) The Sedalia Capital; The Sedalia Daily Democrat (1874–1925) The Sedalia Democrat (1949–)
Oct. 30—Dates and the daily admission fee are set for the 2024 Crawford County Fair as its board of directors also seeks four nominees for its volunteer board. The county fair will run Aug. 17 ...
The Ozark Music Festival was held on July 19–21, 1974 on the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Missouri. It is estimated that anywhere from 160,000 to 350,000 were in attendance at the three day festival. [1] [2] The event was marked by mismanagement as the facilities were not equipped for the number of attendees. [3]
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.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (in case citations, E.D. Mo.) is a trial level federal district court based in St. Louis, Missouri, with jurisdiction over fifty counties in the eastern half of Missouri. The court is one of ninety-four district-level courts which make up the first tier of the U.S. federal ...
The James L. Mathewson Exhibition Center is a publicly owned 3,155-seat multi-purpose arena on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri. Built in 1988, it received its current name in 1994 to honor Missouri Senator James L. Mathewson, who was instrumental in getting support for the State Fair to the General Assembly.
Pettis County is a county located in west central U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,980. [1] Its county seat is Sedalia. [2] The county was organized on January 24, 1833, and named after former U.S. Representative Spencer Darwin Pettis. Pettis County comprises the Sedalia, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.