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The Wildflower! Arts and Music Festival is an event held annually in Richardson, Texas , and typically has a turn out of about 70,000 people. It began in 1993 as a small community event held in a local park in Northeast Richardson, Texas, and got its name from the March through May celebration season when wildflowers blossom throughout the city.
(state flower) Gelsemium sempervirens: 1924 [59] Goldenrod (state wildflower) Solidago altissima: 2003 [60] South Dakota: Pasque flower: Pulsatilla hirsutissima: 1903 [61] Tennessee: Iris (state cultivated flower) Iris: 1933 [62] Purple passionflower (state wildflower 1) Passiflora incarnata: 1919 [62] Tennessee purple coneflower (state ...
Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, state fairs, ribfests, and strawberry festivals. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. [1]
The Palmetto State’s largest annual event, the state fair returns Oct. 9 through Oct. 20 at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. This year will feature a host of new specialty foods and drinks ...
Wildflower Festival (or Wild Flower Festival) may refer to one of these annual events: Kings Park Festival, an annual September festival in Western Australia, formerly known as Perth's Wildflower Festival; Wildflower Festival, an annual May event that includes the Wildflower Triathlon in California; Wildflower!
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]
The Iowa State Fair was held in a different community every two years after it was first established. The first fair was held in Fairfield in 1854. The other towns that hosted the fair included Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Iowa City, Dubuque, Burlington, Clinton, Keokuk and Cedar Rapids. [2] The state fair moved to Des Moines permanently in 1878.
Location of the state of Florida in the United States of America. The state of Florida has numerous symbols defined by state statutes. The majority of the symbols were chosen after 1950; only the two oldest symbols—the state flower (chosen in 1909), and the state bird (chosen in 1927), and the state nickname (chosen in 1970)—are not listed in the 2010 Florida Statutes. [1]