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Apr. 30—SHIPSHEWANA — Tuesday was the first day of the season for the Shipshewana Flea Market. Shipshewana Flea Market sits on 40 acres and has nearly 700 spaces of vendors selling their wares.
A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of street market that provides space for vendors to sell previously owned (second-hand) goods. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This type of market is often seasonal. However, in recent years there has been the development of 'formal' and 'casual' markets [ 3 ] which divides a fixed-style market (formal) with long-term leases ...
Shipshewana is a town in Newbury Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States. The population was 658 at the 2010 census. The population was 658 at the 2010 census. It is the location of the Menno-Hof Amish & Mennonite Museum, which showcases the history of the Amish and Mennonite peoples.
It is 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the town of Shipshewana and 6 miles (10 km) east of Middlebury. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Shipshewana Lake CDP has a total area of 0.64 square miles (1.66 km 2 ), of which 0.33 square miles (0.85 km 2 ) are land and 0.31 square miles (0.80 km 2 ), or 48.12%, are water. [ 1 ]
First Monday Trade Days is a monthly flea market held in Canton, Texas. The market is actually held on the Thursday through Sunday preceding the first Monday of each month. It purports to be the largest and oldest continually operated flea market in the United States, and is a highly popular event in the area.
The Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene. Brooklyn Flea is a company based in Brooklyn, New York.Founded in 2008 by Jonathan Butler, creator of Brownstoner Magazine, [1] and Eric Demby, the former communications director for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Flea runs several of the largest flea markets on the East Coast of the United States.
In addition to enslaved people, the market sold real estate and stock. [4] Slave auctions at Ryan's Mart were advertised in broadsheets throughout the 1850s, some appearing as far away as Galveston, Texas. When U.S. Army forces occupied Charleston beginning in February 1865, the people Ryan's Mart still enslaved were freed. [5]