Important dates in history of State Fair of Virginia
State Fair of Vir ginia history
1854: Virginia State Agricultural Society is established, holds the first state fair at present-day Monroe Park in Richmond.1859: The fair moves to West Broad Street near the present-day Science Museum of Virginia, is suspended from 1861 to 1866 due to the Civil War.
1906: Virginia State Fair Association organizes to revive the fair after a 10-year absence, uses a site along North Boulevard that's now home to The Diamond.
1946: The association reorganizes as Atlantic Rural Exposition Inc. and moves the fair to Strawberry Hill off Laburnum Avenue in rural Henrico County. The site eventually is shared through a lease with Richmond International Raceway.
1999: Atlantic Rural Exposition sells Strawberry Hill complex to RIR for $47 million, plans to move fair to the Varina area of eastern Henrico County in 2001.
2002: Atlantic Rural Exposition abandons plans to relocate in Henrico, looks at Meadow Farm in Caroline County as a possible home. The farm is best known as the birthplace of Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown in 1973.
2003: Atlantic Rural Exposition buys Meadow Farm site for $5.3 million, with hopes of relocating by 2006. Group is renamed The State Fair of Virginia Inc.
2008: Fair breaks ground on $81 million complex called The Meadow Event Park.
Sept. 24, 2009: Fair opens at Meadow Farm.
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