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Smokey's Greater Shows is a traveling carnival midway company based in Fryeburg, Maine, United States. It provides amusement rides, games and concessions for local, county and state fairs throughout Maine. [1] It appeared at the Fryeburg Fair for over forty years, before its partnership ended in 2022. [2]
Fryeburg is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,369 at the 2020 census. [3] Fryeburg is home to Fryeburg Academy, a semi-private preparatory school, and the International Musical Arts Institute. The town is also site of the Fryeburg Fair, which each October attracts approximately 300,000 visitors.
Scene at the Fryeburg Fair. The fair was first organized in 1851 by the West Oxford Agricultural Society, which comprised farmers from ten towns in western Maine. It began in Hiram, Maine in October 1851, and moved between several towns before settling on a location in Fryeburg, eventually locating at its present site in 1885.
The Main Street Historic District of Fryeburg, Maine, encompasses the growth of the town's principal village between about 1800 and 1935.It extends along Main Street (marked United States Route 302 for part of its length and Maine State Route 5 for all of it), from Woodland Street in the north to Portland Street (SR 5 and Maine State Route 113) in the south, and includes forty primary ...
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The Former Fryeburg Town House is a historic municipal building in what is now a rural section of Fryeburg, Maine. Built in 1847, it served as Fryeburg's town hall for over 130 years, and is still used as a polling place. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]
The church building is a two-story wood frame structure, set on a narrow side street just off Main Street in Fryeburg center. It has board-and-batten siding, and a gable roof. A two-story tower at the southeast corner of the building provides the main entrance and a belfry, while a smaller engaged tower adorns the other corner of the main facade.
Fryeburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Fryeburg in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,444 at the 2020 census . Geography