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Grandstand Avenue as viewed from the SkyGlider at the 2023 Wisconsin State Fair Second Street and the WonderFair Wheel at the 2023 Wisconsin State Fair A cow at Dairy Lane at the 2022 Wisconsin State Fair. The Wisconsin State Fair is an annual event held at the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee.
In 1846 Josiah Willard and his family came to Rock County from New York, bringing along 7-year-old daughter Frances. Josiah was a progressive farmer who helped found the Rock County Agricultural and Mechanics' Association and promoted the first Wisconsin State Fair, which was held in Janesville.
Janesville Assembly's chimney. Janesville Assembly Plant was a former automobile factory owned by General Motors located in Janesville, Wisconsin. Opened in 1919, it was the oldest operating GM plant when it was largely idled in December 2008, and ceased all remaining production on April 23, 2009. The demolition of the plant was completed in 2019.
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Janesville was the site of the first Wisconsin State Fair in 1851, attended by approximately 10,000 people. [19] A tree that once stood in downtown Courthouse Park was the site of a lynch mob that, on their second attempt, having been rebuffed by an opposing crowd the day before, hanged a convicted murderer in 1859. [20]
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
The Milwaukee Mile is a 1.015 mi (1.633 km) oval race track in the central United States, located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Its grandstand and bleachers seats approximately 37,000 spectators. Opened in 1903 as a dirt track, it was paved in 1954.
Allen P. Lovejoy was president of Harris Machine Company, a bank director, mayor of Janesville, and a state senator. [ 7 ] The Merrill house at 202 St Lawrence Ave is a 2.5-story house probably built as a brick Italianate-styled house in the mid-1800s, but then updated and expanded to a Georgian Revival-styled house around 1904.