The Youth Building, constructed in 1952, gets some company as the fairgrounds develops from its humble beginnings as, basically, an open field occupied by a single Quonset hut. “Many of the 4-H club and Future Farmers of America boys and girls slept on the grounds Monday night after bedding down their animals,” The Lima News wrote August 22, 1950, after the first day of the first fair to be held on the new grounds. “The city of tents was completed late Monday night and everything was ready when the fair gates swung open Tuesday morning…”. Courtesy of the Allen County Historical Society.