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  2. Allentown Fairgrounds - Wikipedia

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    In 1852, the Lehigh County Agricultural Society launched the first of what would become a long-running Lehigh Valley tradition, the annual Great Allentown Fair.The first fair, which was held from October 6 to 8 that year on land east of Allentown's Fourth Street, between Union and Walnut streets, [2] [3] was followed up the next year on a plot of land located between Fifth and Sixth streets ...

  3. Great Allentown Fair - Wikipedia

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    Postcard of Horse Exhibit Hall at the Great Allentown Fair at the Allentown Fairgrounds in 1909. The Lehigh County Agricultural Society hosted the first fair from October 6 to October 8, 1852, on Livingston's Lawn, a 5-acre (20,000 m 2) plot located east of Fourth Street, between Walnut and Union Streets, in Allentown.

  4. Agriculture Hall (Madison, Wisconsin) - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture Hall is a Beaux Arts-style building on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison built in 1903. In 1985 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and because it housed the first Department of Agricultural Economics in the U.S. and the first department of genetics.

  5. National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry

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    Grange Hall in Solon, Maine, circa 1910. The National Grange, a.k.a.The Grange, officially named The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, is a social organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture. [1]

  6. Agriculture Hall - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture Hall may refer to: Agriculture Hall (Tippecanoe County, Indiana), listed on the Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures; Agriculture Hall (Ames, Iowa), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Story County, Iowa; Melligan Store-Agriculture Hall, Port Hope, Michigan, listed on the National Register of Historic ...

  7. Pennsylvania Farm Show - Wikipedia

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    It is the largest indoor agricultural event held in the United States. The Farm Show Complex houses 24 acres (97,000 m 2) under its roof, spread throughout eleven halls, including three arenas. [1] The annual event is free to the public and attracts over half a million visitors. [1] This event was first held in 1917 as Pennsylvania's State Fair ...

  8. California State Fair - Wikipedia

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    The State Fair outgrew both Agricultural Hall and the Cattle Ground site: a new exhibit hall pavilion was completed in 1884 at 15th and N in what is now Capitol Park, [9]: 8 [22] and the fairground moved in 1909 to a new 80-acre (32 ha) site just outside Sacramento city limits, northeast of the intersection of Stockton Boulevard and Broadway ...

  9. Sandhills Global Event Center - Wikipedia

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    The Lancaster County Agricultural Society, which manages the Lancaster Event Center, was founded in 1867 as the Lancaster County Agricultural & Horticultural Society [2] and re-formed as the Lancaster County Agricultural Society in 1870 as a separate, county-level subdivision under Nebraska law to help promote agriculture.