How many people were in attendance at the Minnesota State Fair?”
The Minnesota State Fair is an annual fair that takes place in St. Paul and has been running since its first year in 1859. Like many state fairs, it moved around a fair bit in its early years to better include the various parts of the state, which had trouble transporting livestock over long distances. The transient nature of the fair was actually in part what led to a competing fair opening up in Minneapolis. The two fairs were both quite popular, and in the end they were joined together and held roughly half way between the two areas at Ramsey County Poor Farm, which is still the site of the Minnesota State Fair today. Today, the fair runs for twelve days usually, with the last day being Labor Day, and the total number of people who attend the fair is upwards of 1,600,000 people. The Minnesota State Fair is also the largest state fair in the country by daily attendance, though not by total attendance as the Texas State Fair runs for almost twice as long. Perhaps one of the oldest tra
