Michigan State Fair
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America’s first state fair, conducted by the Michigan Agricultural Society with the support of the legislature and local citizens, was held in Detroit on September 25-27, 1849. About eight hundred dollars in premiums were awarded for those “articles, productions and improvements” that were “best calculated to promote the agricultural and household manufacturing interests of the state.
” The site of this annual fair was often moved until 1905 when it was given a permanent home here at the fairgrounds.
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