Excerpt from Reports of the First Exhibition of the Worcester County Mechanics Association: At the Nashua Halls, in the City of Worcester, September, 1848

Another object contemplated in the organization of the Association, was that of an annual Fair, so soon as it should be apparent that such exhibitions would be reciprocal in their benefits to the Association and to the public. The Association believes that the time has arrived when such a Fair may be held; and to this conviction they are impelled by the great and important changes that have taken place in the community in which they are located, and of which they are a part.

From an almost purely agricultural community, the County of Worcester has become distinguished also for the number of its Mechanical and Manufacturing establishments; for the amount of industry employed and capital invested therein and for the extensive variety and superior excellence of the products of genius and art. To encourage and reward meritorious effort, as an incentive to further advancement and higher improvement, in a field where much has already been accomplished, but where so much more remains to be done, is an object of paramount importance in the view of the Association and one, it is believed, on which the public is now prepared to bestow its favorable consideration. Thus regarding it, the Association ventures upon the experiment of a Mechanics Fair in Worcester, in the hope that it will be so well received and sustained by the public, that it will be but the first of a series of Fairs of long continuance, and of extensive and ever in creasing utility to those branches of our common industry.

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