Editorial June 10, 2023 Believe it or not, it is time for the Iowa State Fair.
What may well be the grandest of our nation’s state agricultural festivities – the Iowa State Fair – will begin Wednesday and run through June. 21.
Iowans gathered in Fairfield for the first state fair in 1854 – just eight years after achieving statehood. That fair boasted an attendance of about 8,000. In the early years the fair’s venue changed frequently. It wasn’t until 1879 that Des Moines became its home. It took up residence at the present site in 1886.