Dedication ceremonies for the fair were held on October 21, 1892, but the fairgrounds were not actually opened to the public until May 1, 1893.

As theatrical booths, circus acts and menageries were once a common part of European fairs it is likely that the roots of Polari / Parlyaree lie in the period before both theatre and circus became independent of the fairgrounds.

West Lebanon became the next site of the county fair, and it ran successfully through 1883 ; the fairgrounds just to the northwest of town were well-developed.

The county fairgrounds were built in the southwest corner of Corydon where the home of Edward Smith formerly stood.

The temporary sites were largely located on fairgrounds or race tracks in completely public and visible locations.

During the Civil War, the fairgrounds were converted to become Camp Noble and used as a muster point for the area's regiments.

King Avenue and Ralph Avenue were named after Ralph Luthor King, who owned the land located near the fairgrounds.

The fairgrounds were later converted to a community softball park.

During the American Civil War, local military regiments were mustered, quartered, and trained at Camp Ironton, a military post located at the county fairgrounds.

During the early part of World War II, the fairgrounds were part of Camp Harmony, a temporary Japanese American internment camp for more than 7, 000 detainees, most of whom were American citizens.

The fairgrounds were transferred to Nizhny Novgorod, equipped with temporary wooden trade rows.

In April 1944, Touvier led a raid outside Lyons, on the fairgrounds in the town of Montmelian, five miles from Chambery, and rounded up 57 Spanish refugees, who were deported to the camps.

After 1981, the fairgrounds were demolished to make room for the Danbury Fair Mall, which opened in the fall of 1986.

Virtually every structure erected on the fairgrounds was extraordinary ( in a literal sense: " out of the ordinary "), and many of them were experimental in many ways.

These early events were largely planned by one of the top names in early auto racing promotion, Ernest Moross, who earned fame for his bold and sometimes outlandish barnstorming events at fairgrounds tracks with racing star Barney Oldfield.

* During World War II, up to 425 Italian and German prisoners of war were held at the Chautauqua County fairgrounds on Central Avenue.

As originally conceived in the late 1960s, rock festivals were held outdoors, often in open rural areas or open-air sports arenas, fairgrounds and parks, typically lasted two or more days, featured long rosters of musical performers, and attracted very large crowds.

The buildings and the fairgrounds were somewhat unfinished on opening day, as political complications had prevented the French government from paying much attention to the exhibition until six months before it was due to open.

The following ballads were broadcast between February and April 2006: The Song of Steel on the decline of the Sheffield and Rotherham Steel Industry ( 27 February ); The Enemy That Lives Within, on HIV / AIDS ( 6 March ); The Horn of the Hunter, on Foxhunting ( 13 March ); Swings and Roundabouts, on Travellers who run fairgrounds ( 20 March ) Thirty Years of Conflict ; on the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland ( 27 March ); and The Ballad of the Big Ships, on the shipyards of the Tyne and the Clyde, ( 3 April ).

When the fair lost the lease on the Memphis Fairgrounds location, plans were to move the fair to a new permanent fairgrounds in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi.

There were many larger versions located in churches, fairgrounds, music halls, and other large establishments such as sports arenas and theaters.

In the 19th century, due to the reptilian look of the diamond-shaped leaf scar pattern, petrified trunks of Lepidodendron were frequently exhibited at fairgrounds by amateurs as giant fossil lizards or snakes.

Carrère was Chairman of the Board of Architects for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, and designed the Triumphal Bridge and the landscape features throughout the fairgrounds

The layout of the fairgrounds was created by Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Beaux-Arts architecture of the buildings was under the direction of Daniel Burnham, Director of Works for the fair.

The Washington State Coliseum, financed by the state of Washington, was one of Thiry's own architectural contributions to the fairgrounds.

The almost identical Parlyaree has been spoken in fairgrounds since at least the 17th century and continues to be used by show travellers in England and Scotland.

The Parlyaree spoken on fairgrounds tends to borrow much more from Romany, as well as other languages and argots spoken by travelling people, such as cant and backslang.

Shea Stadium, while not part of the fairgrounds proper, was listed in the fair's maps and was served by the same subway line.

The fairgrounds, built in the southwest corner of Corydon, are bordered on the south and west by a large ridge ; this ridge served as a natural grandstand until the first grandstand was built around 1910.

The fairgrounds also contains a modern rodeo arena that hosts the Olla Rodeo, sponsored by the local Kiwanis International club, annually.

Since 1991, the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance has taken place each July at the village fairgrounds and is hosted by nationally popular Trumansburg-based band Donna the Buffalo.

One of the first buildings in Burlington, the first ' Ward County Courthouse '; built by James Johnson, and used originally as a granary ; was moved to the North Dakota State Fair fairgrounds in the mid-20th century and now serves as one of the 2 buildings of the Ward County Historical Society ` s Fairgrounds Museum.

The original financial conditions that led to the city accepting Half. com's offer returned in 2004, when the company owning a promissory note secured by its fairgrounds and improvements demanded payment of over $ 530, 000.

This by definition makes running fairgrounds a family business, and family names are synonymous with fairgrounds in certain areas.

Since the late 19th century, fairgrounds in the UK have been run by a guild known as the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

* Scotlands fairgrounds-history of Scottish fairgrounds and lists of current and past rides by Peter Morran Honorary Member of the Showmen ’ s Guild of Great Britain ( Scottish section ).

* In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, one of the main characters breaks into the abandoned fairgrounds and the Perisphere itself, where he has a significant sexual experience.

So in the markets and fairgrounds the itinerant actors created a new theatrical form by holding up cue-cards ( like sub-titles or karaoke ) containing the words of the plays or songs, which the audience then acted or sang for them.

Another high profile restoration by staff at the British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive is the Mitchell and Kenyon collection, which consists almost entirely of actuality films commissioned by travelling fairground operators for showing at local fairgrounds or other venues across the UK in the early part of the twentieth century.

In 1882 the fairgrounds became the first to be lit by electricity, and Torontonian J. J. Wright introduced the electric railway there in 1883.

The Danbury Fair Mall was built on the fairgrounds by the Wilmorite Corporation.

A pan-fried version, primarily inspired by Filipino pancit, is also popular, especially at carnivals, fairgrounds, and catered parties.

The new fairgrounds was supposed to be available in 2009, but was delayed when progress on the new facility was slowed by weather and economic conditions.

The track is one that tends to be either loved or hated by fans and drivers alike — purists who grew up driving or attending races at older short tracks located at fairgrounds and similar places tend to love Bristol while those raised on superspeedway racing tend to chafe at the lower speeds.