Neat article put out on the ACBS website
“The Great Danbury State Fair was established in 1869 in Danbury, Connecticut, and by the early 1900s it was the largest agricultural fair in New England. In 1949 the Great Danbury State Fair Grounds opened the nation’s first landlocked, oval, boat-racing speedway—the Aquaway—to augment its successful stock-car racing program. This flooded racecourse, which was built on the fairgrounds’ historic horseracing course, was approximately a quarter-mile long, 30-feet wide and three-feet deep, with wooden sides that leaked and constantly had to be refilled.”