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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
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 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]
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The fair runs July 19 through July 28 this year. Here are the promotional days for the event: Friday, July 19: Orrstown Bank Dollar Day : $1 admission per person.
Maryland State Fair in September 2013. The Maryland State Fair is an annual event held in the state of Maryland. It is hosted at the Maryland State Fairgrounds, located near York and Timonium roads in Timonium. As of 2006, the fair has been traditionally scheduled for a duration of 11 days.
Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and other presidents have given speeches on the fairgrounds, though not during the State Fair. In 1974, the Missouri State Fairgrounds was the site of the Ozark Music Festival, one of the largest but least remembered major music festivals of the 1970s. While the plan was for the pop/rock/bluegrass festival's ...
Voters line up Oct. 26, 2020, outside the Washington County Election Center at 17718 Virginia Ave. in Halfway for the first day of in-person early voting for the 2020 general election.