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The fair was later rechartered as a non-profit organization and renamed the Tennessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair in 1932 - the 1933 fair was the first Fair operating under the new name. The Fair has been held every year since 1919 except for 1942-1945 & 2020.
1801 – Paris, France – Second Exposition (1801). After the success of the exposition of 1798 a series of expositions for French manufacturing followed (1801, 1802, 1806, 1819, 1823, 1827, 1834, 1844 and 1849) until the first properly international (or universal) exposition in France in 1855.
World's Fair Park is a public park in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The park sits on the former fairgrounds of the 1982 World's Fair hosted in Knoxville. Today, the park is home to the Sunsphere and the Tennessee Amphitheater , the two remaining structures from the exposition.
A Knoxville tradition since 1961, the Dogwood Arts Festival this year will be April 26-28. The festival will be on the redesigned Performance Lawn at World’s Fair Park and will feature more ...
The Tennessee Amphitheater was built for 1982 World's Fair [1] and was designed by structural engineer Horst Berger, part of McCarty Bullock and Holsaple, architects of Knoxville (led by architect Bruce McCarty, the Master Architect of the 1982 World's Fair), and Geiger Berger, structural engineers of New York City.
The Sunsphere observation deck was closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit Knoxville reopened the Sunsphere observation deck on February 22, 2022. The floor offers a 360-degree view stretching from downtown to the Great Smoky Mountains, including World's Fair Park, the Tennessee River, and the University of Tennessee Campus.
Chartered in 1851, the Knox County Fair is the longest-running such event in Illinois. This year's fair runs July 10-15. Knox County to host 172nd annual county fair.
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