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The Clay County Fair is held every September in Spencer, Iowa, United States. It is the largest county fair in the state of Iowa. It has the largest agricultural exposition in North America. Bringing in over 310,000 visitors a year, Clay County Fair is one of the largest county fairs in the United States. 2011 set an attendance record of ...
The Iowa State Fair was held in a different community every two years after it was first established. The first fair was held in Fairfield in 1854. The other towns that hosted the fair included Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Iowa City, Dubuque, Burlington, Clinton, Keokuk and Cedar Rapids. [2] The state fair moved to Des Moines permanently in 1878.
The facility on the Southern Iowa Fairgrounds was built in 1919 by P.W. Sparks, a prominent local contractor. It is believed he designed the building as well. [2] It is one of several structures built at the grounds around the same time. In 1919 the Southern Iowa Fair was the second largest fair in the state after the Iowa State Fair. [2]
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Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,384. [1] Its county seat is Spencer. [2] Its name is in honor of Henry Clay Jr., [3] a colonel who died in action in the Mexican–American War, and son of Henry Clay, famous American statesman from Kentucky.
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. [4] In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census .