Brooklyn Fair

• In 1809, the first year of the fair, it was held on the site of what is currently known as the Vanilla Bean Cafe ^[6]
• In the following years, the event was hosted in rotation in Woodstock, Brooklyn, and Pomfret, Connecticut
• About 10 years after the first fair, in 1820, the ~100 founders incorporated in the Windham County Agricultural Society.
• In the year 2000 the Society was recognized for its efforts by the Library of Congress in its "Bicentennial Local Legacies Project" as part of its 200th Anniversary celebration.^[3]
• No fair was held in 1917–18 because of World War I, 1942–45 because of World War II, or 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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