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St. Louis Fair Grounds and race track in an 1874 panoramic map with list of landmarks. The Fairgrounds originated in 1856 with the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. In the early 1880s, the association fell upon hard times and was replaced with the St. Louis Fair and Jockey Club. [2] In 1901, Cap Tilles, Sam W. Adler, and Louis ...
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million (equivalent to $509 million in 2023) [ 1 ] were used to finance the event.
Fairground is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The neighborhood's boundaries are defined as Glasgow Avenue on the east, west and North Florissant Avenues on the ...
St. Louis Fair Grounds, site of annual Exposition, in an 1874 print. The Saint Louis Exposition or St. Louis Expo was a series of annual agricultural and technical fairs held in St. Louis' Fairgrounds Park, from the 1850s to 1902. In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a major World's Fair, was held in St. Louis, Missouri. The annual ...
Benton Barracks (or Camp Benton) was a Union Army military encampment, established during the American Civil War, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the present site of the St. Louis Fairground Park. Before the Civil War, the site was owned and used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association , which at the time was located on the ...
The Negro Leagues played its first East-West All-Star Game on Sept. 10, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, and the last one was held in 1962, before the league shuttered.
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