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In 1956, the fair Board petitioned the Alaska Legislature for official designation as the Alaska State Fair. In 1960, the fair celebrated its 25th anniversary and was paid a visit by President John F. Kennedy. [7] 1967 was the fair's first year in its present 300-acre location at 2075 Glenn Highway in Palmer. The total attendance that year ...
The Tanana Valley State Fair is an annual state fair held in College, Alaska, United States. The event commences on the first Friday in August, and is a major annual event in Interior Alaska. The fair is held on a hundred-acre plot of land just outside the city limits of Fairbanks, in the approximate center of College Road.
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]
Aug. 17—The 2023 Alaska State Fair kicks off Friday in Palmer. The fair runs until Sept. 4, but takes off Tuesday and Wednesday each week. The fair has all of the old favorites — great food ...
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, acronym AYP or AYPE, was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909 publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. It was originally planned for 1907 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush , but the organizers learned of the Jamestown Exposition being held that same year and rescheduled.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
William A. Egan, Alaska Constitutional Convention President During the 1950s, agitation grew in Alaska for the territory to become a state. Alaskans could not vote in presidential elections and had a territorial legislature with limited powers. Efforts to lobby federal legislators for an Alaska statehood bill met with limited success, so prominent territorial officials decided to draft a state ...
Situated in the Matanuska Valley, about 45 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, the colony was settled by 203 families from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. [2] The colony project cost about $5,000,000 and, after five years, over half of the original colonists had left the valley. By 1965, only 20 of the first families were still farming the ...