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Before 1989
The fair without a home: Between the Swinney grounds years and 1989, the Allen County Fair's address is the thinnest line in its own history. The fairgrounds organization's official history says it in one sentence: prior to construction of the Allen County Fairgrounds, the Allen County Fair was held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum and other locations. The Coliseum is a fair building by nature, an exhibition hall with barns' worth of floor, and the fair's tenancy there is the documented center of the guest years. The building's own history, its 1952 dedication and its exhibition life, stands in the Coliseum's record in this work and is cross-referenced here, not retold.
The unnamed: The other locations are not named, in the fairgrounds' history or in any citable source found, and no wartime interruption of the county fair, in either world war, is fixed by a source found either. Both gaps are printed as gaps. A fair that moves is a fair at risk every year of simply not happening, and the guest years are best understood as the problem the next article's founding solved: permanence had to be built, because it could not be inherited from a park the city had other plans for.
Sources:
- Allen County Fairgrounds, "Our History," allencountyfairgroundsin.com (the fair held at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum and other locations before the fairgrounds were built).