Raw States
Kentucky State Fair
Louisville, KY · Festival
- When
- August 19–29, 2027
- Where
- Kentucky Exposition Center · Louisville · KY
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
An 11-day state fair at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, with livestock competitions, the World's Championship Horse Show, and a concert series. The 2026 fair runs August 20 through 30.
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- Kentucky Derby1.4 mi
Run over a mile and a quarter since 1875 and decided in about two minutes, making it the longest continuously held sporting event in the country..
- First Kentucky Derby1.4 mi
Thirteen of the fifteen jockeys in the first Derby were Black, and Black riders won fifteen of the first twenty-eight before being pushed out of the sport.
A limestone mine dug out under the city for a century left a hundred acres of rooms seventy feet below the surface, big enough that it was designated a fallout shelter for fifty thousand people in the Cold War, stocked with rations.