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The Orange County Fair is an annual fair held in the town of Wallkill, New York. The fair began when farmers of Orange County organized an agricultural society to help promote a county fair. In 1808 they tried to organize the fair but it did not generate enough local interest. The society tried again in 1818 and held the fair until 1825. It took another sixteen years before county leaders met at the Old Stone Courthouse in Goshen, New York on September 11, 1841 and formed the Orange County Agricultural Society. That meeting was the birth of the Orange County Fair and the first fair was held on November 17, 1841 in Goshen. Since that first fair in Goshen, the fair gained in popularity and other communities wanted to host it on a rotating basis. The fair rotated locations from year to year in Montgomery, NY, Chester, NY, Newburgh, NY, Warwick, NY, Washingtonville, NY, Goshen, NY and Middletown, NY. In 1862 the fair's permanent site in Goshen was established but by 1872 the fair was in trouble because the lease on that site was not renewed, however, a group of Orange County farmers kept the fair alive in succeeding years.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lN5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xDMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2809%2C2193801 Oldest NY County Fair〕 It was permanently located in the Wallkill–Middletown area in 1897.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Zl5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pjINAAAAIBAJ&pg=2562%2C2176542 How Early Farmers launched the OCF〕 ==Orange County Fair Speedway== The fairgrounds are also home to the Orange County Fair Speedway, where they hold stock car races and demolition derbies during the summer months. It is the oldest continuously operating dirt track in the United States. In 1919, a group staged an automobile race during the annual fair. The first race was a huge success, and auto racing has been an integral part of the fairgrounds ever since.〔http://victoryspeedway.net/ Victory Speedway〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orange County Fair (New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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