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| State Fair of Virginia | |
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 Ferris wheel at the 2019 State Fair of Virginia | |
| Genre | State fair |
| Date(s) | Late September - Early October |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | Meadow Event Park, Doswell, Virginia  United States |
| Inaugurated | 1854 |
| Website | www |
The State Fair of Virginia is a state fair held annually at the end of September at The Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia. Through 2008, the fair was held at the Richmond Raceway Complex, located in eastern Henrico County, just outside the capital city of Richmond. It is owned by the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation.[1]
The Fair has offered rides, carnival games, concerts, and typical fair foods such as cotton candy and funnel cakes as well as Virginia's favorites barbecue chicken and peanuts. The Fair has also offered technological, agricultural, historical, and livestock exhibitions and competitions, including pig races.[1] Several of the competitions offered scholarships to students that competed. Entertainment includes log-rolling, chain sawing, pig races, snake handling, magicians, and stilt-walking. Vendors sell clothing, belt buckles, and other items with novelty designs
The expositions have included: "Virginia World" which highlighted Virginia agricultural products, the better living center which hosted the arts & craft competition displays, the technology expo which highlighted Virginia technology industry, and "Young McDonald's Farm" which displayed a variety of young animals for the urban visitor to see. Additionally, one section of the Fair has included a "Heritage Village" which displayed Native American, African American, and Euro-American history in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- ^ a b Couch, Charles (25 September 2013). "The State Fair of Virginia is Here". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 5 July 2016.