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Agriculture Fair Board history
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After a few false starts, the system of agricultural societies and their fairs spread all over Ontario in the 1800's.
He earned the title, "Father of US agricultural fairs" by organizing the Berkshire Agricultural Society and creating an event (known then as a Cattle Show) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in September 1811.
Watson worked diligently for many years helping communities organize their own agricultural societies and their respective shows (fairs). By 1819 most counties in New England had organized their own agricultural societies and the movement was spreading into the other states.
In the fall of 1849, some citizens of Palmyra, New York decided to hold a horse racing competition and display of agricultural products for their area and surrounding towns in Hathaway’s grove.
On April 13, 1856, seventeen men organized themselves as The Union Agricultural Society at Palmyra and filed corporation papers; they held a three-day fair in October that year.
Little is written about what took place after that first fair until 1856.
The Fair Building, known today as Floral Hall, was erected in 1856 and still is used today; many repairs & modifications have been made over the years, but Floral Hall is the only building still remaining since that time.
In 1863, The Union Agricultural Society at Palmyra purchased it for $6,000.
6, 1895 – Annual Meeting …build a grandstand to seat 500 people.
From the secretary’s minutes: Union Agricultural Society at Palmyra April 15, 1898 Decided to extend the main building 32 feet to the north, run it up 2 stories and run the roof east and west.
1922 was the first year that the fair was open at nighttime.
Their initial meeting occurred on a cold, March night in Rockville in 1945 with the intent to start a Fair.
The Montgomery County Agricultural Center Inc. (MCAC) was formed as a privately operated 501(c) (3) non-profit organization on January 7, 1949, when a group of local farmers were elected as the first Board of Directors by the volunteer membership of the organization.
The first Putnam County Fair was held in downtown Palatka in 1950.
The 1962 Fair was named the People’s Fair and then renamed The Wayne County Fair.
Instead of renting tents to house commercial exhibits, the Fair purchased a 4O’x 60′ steel building in 1976, Commercial Bldg.
Another steel building was added in 1980, Commercial Bldg.
An additional restroom was built in 1986.
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