Question: Where was the first Florida State Fair held in 1904?
Answer: Downtown Tampa at Henry B. Plant’s Tampa Bay Hotel
From a small start in 1904 as the Florida State Fairgrounds, Floridians have believed that nothing brings a community together like a good time. That has been the belief of fair organizers since the first fair, held in downtown Tampa at Henry B. Plant’s Tampa Bay Hotel. In 1915, The Florida State Fairgrounds was combined with Tampa’s Gasparilla Carnival to become the biggest, best, most-deep-fried event of the year—now known as the Florida State Fair.
