Ye Old Mill ride - Kansas State Fair
Project type: Fairgrounds, Parks and Recreation
Quality of Information: Good
Marked:
Unknown
Site Survival: Partially Extant
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Description
Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers built the Bison Arena at the Kansas State Fairgrounds. Other WPA-built improvements included “upgrading the fair’s sewer, rebuilding the Old Mill ride with permanent fireproof concrete, and putting in a reinforced concrete stage and basement at the grandstand.”
The Bison Arena and the rebuilt Old Mill ride are still in use.
Source notes
https://www.kansasstatefair.com/p/general-information1/history-of-the-fair/1933-1942
Project originally submitted by Barbara Pendleton on August 29, 2022.
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