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The first Connecticut Agricultural Fair was held on the Durham Fairgrounds. It was held there until the mid-1980s when the fair moved to its final location on the Goshen Fairgrounds in Litchfield County, in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. In 2006, the Connecticut State Grange canceled the fair permanently. [1]
The 1911 fair saw President William Howard Taft attend some of the day's Grand Circuit races and deliver a speech. [20] The following year presidential candidates Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt and Governor Simeon E. Baldwin spoke at the fair. [21] In 1929, the Connecticut State Fair, which had never been financially successful, was ...
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.
The Big E, formally known as The Eastern States Exposition, is an annual fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts, which opens on the second Friday after Labor Day and runs for seventeen days. It is billed as "New England's Great State Fair," the largest agricultural event on the eastern seaboard and the fifth-largest fair in the nation. [2]
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A two-horse pulling contest at the 89th annual Durham Fair on September 28, 2008 Country music artist Phil Vassar gives a performance at the 2008 fair. The Durham Fair, held in Durham, Connecticut, [1] is one of the largest agricultural fairs in New England and was first held in 1916. The four-day event takes place during the last full weekend ...
Postcard picture of the fair, about 1908. The Danbury Fair (also known as The Great Danbury State Fair) was a yearly exhibition in Danbury, Connecticut.It was begun in 1821 as an agricultural fair, but did not have a regular schedule until 1869 when hat manufacturers Rundle and White helped form the Danbury Farmers and Manufacturers Society. [1]
Connecticut (/ k ə ˈ n ɛ t ɪ k ə t / ⓘ kə-NET-ih-kət) [10] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south.