Colorado’s first state fair opened in 1876 with displays of produce and a pigeon shooting match
Colorado's first state fair took place in Denver on September 26, 1876. The event featured produce displays and a pigeon shooting match.
Colorado’s first-ever state fair opened in Denver on the afternoon of Sept. 26, 1876, and “every means of transportation in the city was pressed into service” to ferry passengers to the 40-acre fairgrounds on its eastern outskirts, according to the Rocky Mountain News. All week, wagons and railroad cars had transported goods from all across […]
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