A Panoramic View of the 1922 Cattle Show and Fair at the North Adams Fairgrounds

ID: 481 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the North Adams Historical Society.
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A Panoramic View of the 1922 Cattle Show and Fair at the North Adams Fairgrounds

In this photo are the vendor stalls, mostly farmers selling their goods, and the racetrack for horse and carriage races, in the top right. Though the fair was mostly a very widely attended event in the late 19th and early 20th century, with 14,000 people in 1911, attendance started to die down in 1926 due to weather and flood damage.

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By Amanda Judson
In the fall of 1927, heavy amounts of rainfall created massive flooding in the Hoosic River, and the rushing water completely obliterated a piece of North Adams history. This piece of history was the Fairgrounds, the site for a variety of events…