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The fair was briefly renamed America's Fair during the early to mid-2000s in an effort to expand the fair beyond Erie County; it has since been renamed the Erie County Fair. The region's first agricultural society was founded in 1819 with the goal of sponsoring a county fair to promote education and competition among farmers.
Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, state fairs, ribfests, and strawberry festivals. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. [1]
Dutchess County Fair – Rhinebeck, New York; El Dorado County Fair – Placerville, California; Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Goshen, Indiana; Erie County Fair – Hamburg, New York; Farm Progress Show – Dacatur and Boone, Iowa (alternate years) Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo – Fort Worth, Texas; Fulton County Fair – Wauseon, Ohio
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 ...
Reb & The Good News preform on the Main Stage on the first day of the Oregon Country Fair near Veneta on July 7, 2023. The Oregon Country Fair has at least 17 stages this year.
Presently, the fairgrounds cover 120 acres (0.49 km 2). When World War II started all fairs in California were halted. When the War ended, Robert M.C. Fullenwider was hired to manage the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival. Fullenwider introduced an "Arabian Nights" theme tying in with the desert region and date industry.
The New Jersey State Fair is a non-profit agricultural fair held in early August at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, New Jersey. The fair has been held in conjunction with the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show since 1999 and draws 220,000 residents annually. The Augusta-based event was commonly referred to as the Sussex County Fair by
The Los Angeles County Fair is an annual county fair. It was first held on October 17, 1922, and ran for five days through October 21, 1922, in a former beet field in Pomona, California . [ 1 ] Highlights of the fair's first year were harness racing , chariot races and an airplane wing-walking exhibition. [ 2 ]