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Georgia State Fair, Macon, 1886-1960

"Agricultural Fair at the Stone Mountain in Dekalb," Georgia Telegraph, July 28, 1846, p. 2. Presented online by the Digital Library of Georgia.
Anderson, Norman D. Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992.
Anderson, Sherwood. The American County Fair. [Prose Quartos. No. 5.]. Random House, 1930.
Avery, Julie A., editor. Agricultural Fairs in America: Tradition, Education, Celebration. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University, c2000.
Barrow, David Crenshaw, and Georgia State Agricultural Society. Education: An Address. [s. l.: s. n.].
Coker, Robert. Roller Coasters: A Thrill Seeker's Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines. New York: Main Street, 2004.
Fried, Frederick. A Pictorial History of the Carousel. Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1982.
Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture, and Thomas P. Janes. A Manual of Georgia for the Use of Immigrants and Capitalists. Atlanta, 1878. Available online: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/georgiabooks/do-pdf:gb0088
Georgia 4-H History. Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co., c2008.
Grace, Arthur. State Fair. 1st ed., Focus on American History Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
Handbook on Agricultural Education in Public Schools. 6th ed. Clifton Park, N.Y.: Thomson Delmar Learning, c2008.
Harvey, Bruce G. World's Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston, 1895?1902. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014.
Hokanson, Drake, and Carol Kratz. Purebred & Homegrown: America's County Fairs. Madison, Wis.: Terrace Books, 2008.
Hubbard, Julie. "Georgia State Fair Celebrates 150 Years of Entertaining." Macon Telegraph, 26 September 2005.
Jenkins, Herbert T. Food, Fairs and Farmers' Markets in Atlanta: Recollections ... on the Early Days, Growth and Expansion of the Produce Business and Its Influence upon the City of Atlanta. Limited 1st edition. Atlanta: Center for Research in Social Change, Emory University, c1977.
Kniffen, Fred. "The American Agricultural Fair: Time and Place." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 41, no. 1 (1951): 42-57.
Marti, Donald B. Historical Directory of American Agricultural Fairs. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Mitchell, Susan K. The Biggest Thrill Rides. Pleasantville, N.Y.: G. Stevens Pub., 2008.
Neely, Wayne Caldwell. The Agricultural Fair. New York: Columbia University Press, 1935.
Nelson, Derek. The American State Fair. Osceola, Wis.: MBI Publishing, 1999.
Nickell, Joe. Secrets of the Sideshows. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
Nowicki, Kate Elizabeth. ?"Race, Recreation and the American South?: Georgia?s Black State Fair 1906-1930," PhD diss., University of Sussex, 2012
Pierce, George Foster, and Southern Central Agricultural Society. Anniversary Address Delivered before the Southern Central Agricultural Society at August, Georgia, October 20, 1853. Augusta, Ga.: Steam Power Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1853.
Prosterman, Leslie Mina. Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Pruett, Joe F. A History of Exchange Clubs in Georgia, 1928-1980. Macon, Ga.: Georgia District Exchange Clubs, 1980.
Range, Willard. A Century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850-1950. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1954.
Rasmussen, Wayne D. Taking the University to the People: Seventy-five Years of Cooperative Extension. 1st ed. Iowa State University Press, 1989.
Reynolds, Robert R. Roller Coasters, Flumes & Flying Saucers: The Story of Ed Morgan & Carl Bacon, Ride Inventors of the Modern Amusement Parks. Jupiter, Fla.: Northern Lights Pub., 1999.
Simms, Kristina. Macon, Georgia's Central City: An Illustrated History. 1st ed. Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor Publications, 1989.
Soden, Garrett. Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.
Southern Central Agricultural Society and David W. Lewis. Transactions of the Southern Central Agricultural Society, from Its Organization in 1846 to 1851. Printed by B.F. Griffin, 1852.
Stencell, A. W. Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999.
Wessel, Thomas R. 4-H, an American Idea, 1900-1980: A History of 4-H. Chevy Chase, Md.: National 4-H Council, c1982.