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The county fair: it was once held here

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One finding belongs to this section; the fair's ground and whole course do not. The St. Joseph County 4-H Fair's own history page states that the fair at one point "moved to North Liberty where the Old Hinkel and Masonic Buildings were used. Cattle was shown in the street," with the fair's expenses "paid by the Chamber of Commerce, Township Schools, Farm Bureau, County Commissioners and County Council." In the page's sequence the hosting sits among the fair's early-twentieth-century wanderings, before its 1941 lottery-calves item; the page gives no year for the North Liberty season in the text read. That — the county fair once hosted in North Liberty, the township schools among its payers — is this township's documented fair participation at that carrier's strength, and it is also, read with the farm-institutions article above, the one dated use of the Hinkle Ford building (as "the Old Hinkel") in a fair's record. The grounds, the fair's whole course from the county's first fairs of 1841, and the fairgrounds' standing as one of Indiana's two privately owned fairgrounds belong to South Bend's file and to this build's fairs leg, and print there.

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Source: The county fair: it was once held here, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/farms-crops/county-fair-at-boundary-size-it-was-once-held/