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Subsequent Michigan state fairs were held in other cities until 1905, when it received what was its permanent home for decades at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit. In 1904, Joseph L. Hudson, together with three of his associates, organized to acquire a site for the fair. They formed the State Fair Land Company, which acquired 135 acres ...
The Michigan State Fair, the oldest state fair in the United States, was held here until 2009. The coliseum has also been the long-time venue of Detroit performances by the Shrine Circus. Between 1999 and 2008, the Coliseum was home to the Wayne State University Warriors ice hockey team. Wayne State played its first collegiate hockey season in ...
The Michigan State Fair, first held in 1849, was the nation's first state fair. It was held in various locations throughout Michigan until 1904, when Joseph L. Hudson formed the State Fair Land Company, acquired 135 acres of land at this site, and deeded it to the Michigan Agricultural Society. The 1905 Michigan State Fair was held on this site.
Illinois State Fairgrounds [450] 1990 1: Steve Eklund AMA Grand National Championship: New Mexico State Fairgrounds [451] 1991 Joey Phelps AMA Regional Championship Illinois State Fairgrounds [452] 1992 Rodney Mashue AMA Regional Championship Darke County Fairgrounds [453] 1995 Rodney Farris AMA Grand National Championship: DuQuoin State ...
One of America’s most important and influential landscape artists was a free Black man in the 1800s who spent decades creating in Detroit and even died here. Yet many still don’t know his name.
Detroit Softball City was a professional softball team that played during the 1982 season in the United Professional Softball League (UPSPL). [1] Detroit Softball City played at and was named for a large recreational softball complex on the grounds of the Michigan State Fair in Detroit.
Two teenagers were shot, one fatally, just outside the Michigan State Fair in what police described late Saturday as an isolated incident. Police in the Detroit suburb of Novi, where the fair is ...
The Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway was a dirt oval racing track located in Detroit, Michigan. The track was built in 1899 for horse racing, [ 1 ] and it was part of the ground purchased to provide a permanent venue for the Michigan State Fair .