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4-H boys showing prize heifers at a 4-H Fair in Charleston, West Virginia, 1921 4-H Home demonstration agents in Florida in 1933 4-H Club member storing food she canned from her garden, Rockbridge County, Virginia, ca. 1942. The foundations of 4-H began in 1902 with the work of several people in different parts of the United States. The focal ...
Jul. 23—ALEXANDRIA — Food is a pillar of any local fair, and vendors at the Madison Count 4-H Fair have some unique offerings. Hot dogs are common at fairs, but at the Dog House, fairgoers ...
Early fairs hosted a rodeo and 4-H youth organization livestock shows. In 1931, the fair moved to its current site at 11th and G streets, now 900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. In 1937, a parade and a three-day horse racing meeting was added to the fair. The fair closed in 1943 and did not open again till 1946 due to World War II.
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; Great Allentown Fair – Allentown, Pennsylvania
Jul. 17—ALEXANDRIA — Not everyone was in the mood for competition Monday afternoon at the Madison County 4-H Fair beef show. Some of the calves gave their handlers a hard time. For one young ...
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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. [4] [5]
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