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Fairground Park is a municipal park that opened in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was originally a privately owned facility, first used by the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association for the St. Louis Exposition from 1856 through 1902. However, the Civil War interrupted the annual fair when the Fairgrounds were used as a Union encampment known as Benton Barracks.St. Louis Republic"Fair Grounds to be Sold to Syndicate" March 15, 1901, Front Page. Retrieved Dec. 8, 2013. The annual exposition ceased in 1902 as preparations for the 1904 World's Fair began. History Fair Grounds Race Track The Fairgrounds originated in 1856 with the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. In the early 1880s, the association fell upon hard times and was replaced with the St. Louis Fair and Jockey Club. In 1901, Cap Tilles, Sam W. Adler, and Louis A. Cella, the principal owners of Delmar Racing Track, purchased the St. Louis Fairgrounds. Since 1892, the partnership had ...
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Fairgrounds Park
Fairgrounds Park (formerly known as Hagerstown Fairgrounds) is an open land park restored from fairgrounds located off Cleveland Avenue in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States. Attractions The park is home tHagerstown BMX a biking trackHagerstown Ice & Sports Complex a public indoor ice skating complex, anFairground Softball Associationwho play at softball fields on the premises. Fairgrounds Park also features walking trails. History Fairgrounds Park was once called Hagerstown Fairgrounds and still features the large grandstand seating facility used during the fairgrounds' heyday especially when the Great Hagerstown Fair, a once popular agricultural showcase event, opened each year. Events The park also features several events throughout the year such as yearly fireworks display held around the American Independence Day Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratifie ...
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Bear Pit
A bear pit was historically used to display bears, typically for entertainment and especially bear-baiting. The pit area was normally surrounded by a high fence, above which the spectators would look down on the bears. The most traditional form of maintaining bears in captivity is keeping them in pits, although many zoos replaced these by more elaborate and spacious enclosures that attempt to replicate their natural habitats, for the benefit of the animals and the visitors. A noteworthy example is found in Bern, Switzerland. Known as the ''Bärengraben'', it was built in 1857 and is still in use though much modified: after an outcry around 2000, when the bears were still in two circular pits and shut up at night, a park was constructed on the riverbank by the pits with generous access to the river Aare which has greatly improved the three bears' accommodation. Other meanings Another meaning is for an unusually aggressive political arena, in which direct, heated attacks are com ...
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Greater Ville, St
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Fair Street (St
A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities. Fairs are typically temporary with scheduled times lasting from an afternoon to several weeks. Types Variations of fairs include: * Art fairs, including art exhibitions and arts festivals * County fair (USA) or county show (UK), a public agricultural show exhibiting the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with agriculture and animal husbandry. * Festival, an event ordinarily coordinated with a theme e.g. music, art, season, tradition, history, ethnicity, religion, or a national holiday. * Health fair, an event designed for outreach to provide basic preventive medicine and medical screening * Historical reenactments, including Renaissance fairs and Dickens fairs * Horse fair, an event where people buy and sell horses. * Job fair, event in which employers, recruiters, and schools give information to potential employees. * Regional or state fair, an ...
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Natural Bridge Avenue
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena. The word ''nature'' is borrowed from the Old French ''nature'' and is derived from the Latin word ''natura'', or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". In ancient philosophy, ''natura'' is mostly used as the Latin translation of the Greek word ''physis'' (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics of plants, animals, and other features of the world to develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socr ...
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Fairground Park Bear Pits
Fairground most typically refers to a permanent space that hosts fairs. Fairground, Fairgrounds, Fair Ground or Fair Grounds may also refer to: Places Canada * Fairground, Ontario, a community United States * Fairground, St. Louis, a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri * Fairground Park, a municipal park in St. Louis, Missouri * Fairgrounds, New Orleans, a city neighborhood * Fairgrounds Park, a park in Hagerstown, Maryland * Fairgrounds Field, a ballpark in Robstown, Texas * Fairgrounds Speedway, an independent racetrack near Nashville, Tennessee * Fair Grounds Race Course, a thoroughbred racetrack and casino in New Orleans Music * Fair Ground (band), a Canadian alternative rock band Songs * "Fairground" (Simply Red song) * "Fairground", by James from the album '' Strip-mine'' Other uses * Fair territory In baseball, a fair ball is a batted ball that entitles the batter (baseball), batter to attempt to reach first base. By contrast, a foul ball is a batted ball that does ...
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Missouri Route 115
Route 115 is a highway in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Its western terminus is at exit 237 of Interstate 70 (I-70) in Berkeley near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Route 115's eastern terminus is also at I-70, at exit 248A, in St. Louis, near the McKinley Bridge. The road is locally known as Natural Bridge Road, Natural Bridge Avenue, and Salisbury Street. It is one of two Missouri Highways that has an odd-numbered designation, yet runs in an east–west direction. History West of I-70 exit 237, the name Natural Bridge Road continues westward for two sections of road: as the southern service road of I-70, and as Route B (connected by way of Lambert International Boulevard). Prior to the construction of I-70 and several phases of expansion of Lambert Airport, Route 115 continued west as far as St. Charles, which included a portion of Natural Bridge Road in Bridgeton which has been significantly impacted by recent airport expansion. Portions of the same ri ...
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Grand Boulevard (St
Grand Boulevard may refer to: *Grand Boulevard (Budapest), Hungary * Grand Boulevard, Joondalup, Australia * Grand Boulevard (Montreal), Canada United States * Grand Boulevard (Corona), California, a circular street that encircles downtown Corona *Grand Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, a neighborhood *Grand Boulevard (Detroit), Michigan, a boulevard that encircles central Detroit * Grand Boulevard (Kansas City, Missouri) *Grand Boulevard, Long Beach, New York *Grand Boulevard (St. Louis), Missouri * Grand Boulevard (Oklahoma City), Oklahoma *Southern Parkway (Louisville, Kentucky), formerly called Grand Boulevard See also * Grand Avenue (other) *Grand Street (other) Grand Street may refer to: * Grand Street (magazine), an American magazine * Grand Street (film), a 2013 film starring Kelly McGillis New York City Streets * Grand Street (Manhattan), a street in New York City * Grand Street (Brooklyn), a street i ...
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Tennis Courts
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game. Dimensions The dimensions of a tennis court are defined and regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) governing body and are written down in the annual 'Rules of Tennis' document. The court is long. Its width is for singles matches and for doubles matches. The service line is from the net. Additional clear space around the court is needed in order for players to reach overrun balls for a total of wide and long. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is high at the posts, and high in the center. The net posts are outside the d ...
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