The Indiana State Fair is in session at Terra Haute, Indiana.

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State Fairs had begun in Indiana in 1852, with the first in Indianapolis. In the second "Annual Exhibition of the State Board of Agriculture" since a hiatus during the Civil War and the fifteenth in all, Terra Haute hosted the week long event in dry weather on its ten acre site. (By John Osborne)

Source Citation

Harper's Weekly Magazine, November 2, 1867, p. 696-697.
"Indiana State Fair," Evansville (IN) Journal, October 2, 1867, p. 1.

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