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The Iowa State Fair is an annual state fair held in Des Moines, Iowa, every August. It began in 1854 and has been held on the Iowa State Fairgrounds since 1886. It is based in the state capital Des Moines, Iowa over an 11 day period in August.
Teddy Bear won the Super Bull contest at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 8, 2024. The competition may be over, but you can still stop and see the winners of the Iowa State Fair's big animal contests.
It's time to plan for the 2024 Iowa State Fair. Here are the dates, how to get tickets and when to find Jelly Roll or other artists at the Grandstand.
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.
Children's tickets for those ages 2 to 11 go for $10 in advance, or $15 at the fair. Figure eight races. The last day of the Iowa State Fair brings the figure eight races on Sunday, Aug. 18, with ...
The Bears finished the 2023–24 season 24–11, 11–7 in Big 12 play to finish in a tie for third place. They lost in the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament to Iowa State . They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as the number three seed in the West Region, where they defeated Colgate in the first round before losing in the ...
The 2023-2024 winter was persistently warm for Iowa, except for an extreme cold spell in the middle of January. In Des Moines, more than half of last winter's days were over 10 degrees above ...