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Allentown Fairgrounds, c. 1901 Allentown Fairgrounds Grandstand, in 2018 Main entrance to Allentown Fairgrounds, in 2019 Allentown Fairgrounds Hotel at 448 N. 17th Street, in 2020. Allentown Fairgrounds is located at 302 North 17th Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It hosts the Great Allentown Fair annually in late August and early September ...
In 1921, the State Fair Commission was created to find a site for a new venue to house the increasingly popular Pennsylvania Farm Show, but was replaced in 1927 with the State Farm Products Show Commission.
[10] At the Great Allentown Fair in 1905, racehorse Dan Patch set a record of 2:01 on the half-mile track. [11] In 1911, the present-day grandstand was built at the Allentown Fairgrounds, increasing the overall seating capacity from 2,500 to 10,000. Between 1907 and 1914, airship races became a featured attraction at the fair. [12]
Jul. 19—Farm market vouchers are now available to eligible older Schuylkill County adults. As in past years, Diakon Community Services is administering the 2023 Senior Farm Market Nutrition Program.
Home of the Great Allentown Fair, an annual fair and agricultural show operated by the Lehigh County Agricultural Society. It is one of the oldest fairs in the United States, and one of the largest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Also home of the Allentown Farmers Market. [20] Allentown Post Office (1934) 442 W. Hamilton Street
Governor Tom Wolf attending the Pennsylvania Farm Show, January 2017. The Pennsylvania Farm Show is an annual agricultural exposition celebrating Pennsylvania's agriculture industry, held every January at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The fairgrounds was established in 1889 by the Lehigh County Agricultural Society (LCAS) as a site to hold its annual fair and operated a farmer's market inside a large grandstand, built in 1908. The property, about 50 acres in size, also had a small horse racing track, stables and several exhibition halls. [2]
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