Kimball Park (National City, California)

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Frank Kimball of National City founds the San Diego County Fair. Kimball had been testing fruit trees here since 1869. He later serves as the State Commissioner of Horticulture from 1888 to 1898. begins operation.

Frank A. Kimball and his wife, Flora, would delight in seeing their fair now fully matured into a 313-acre, sixteen-day event. It was Kimball who headed the first fair on the site now occupied by Kimball Park in National City.

Through the years Frank Kimball remained active with the fair as agricultural commissioner. In his diary, he mentions a fair held February 5, 1903. Other records indicate fairs were held in Escondido from 1909 through 1912. In the 1920s the fair was shifted to Balboa Park.
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Coordinates:   32°40'17"N   117°6'9"W

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  • cool footbal
  • very nice park and big
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