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Author Stroup, Rodger E., author.

Title Meet me at the Rocket : a history of the South Carolina State Fair / Rodger E. Stroup ; foreword by Walter Edgar
Published Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 181 pages)
Contents Colonial and Antebellum Fairs, 1720-1865 -- The Fair on Elmwood Avenue, 1869-1903 -- The Greater State Fair, 1904-1920 -- The Colored Fair, 1890-1969 -- The Depression and World War II, 1921-1945 -- "The Grooming Ground of Champions," 1890-1969 -- Integration and the Civic Center, 1946-1964 -- County and Regional Fairs -- From disaster to a New Vision, 1965-1983 -- Entertainment and the Midway -- The State Fair into the Twenty-first century, 1984-2019 -- Exhibits and Premiums -- Icons of the State Fair -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 05, 2019)
SUBJECT South Carolina State Fair. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019002776
Subject Agricultural exhibitions -- South Carolina -- History
Fairs -- South Carolina -- History
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Agricultural exhibitions
Fairs
South Carolina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Edgar, Walter B., 1943- writer of foreword.
LC no. 2019000958
ISBN 9781643360058
1643360051