Results tagged “York County Agricultural Society” from York Town Square

A historical marker near the York Fairgrounds states that the York Fair is the oldest such event in America.

So does a York Fair mural on the side of the East Market Street parking garage. (The widest of all the murals at 120 feet.)

And occasionally the claim will find its way into print, as it did in the York Daily Record on Friday.

The problem is that it's a hard claim to pin down. Two of the oldest York County histories -- Gibson's and Prowell's -- just tell about its founding in 1765... .