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  • - November 10, 1863: Lewis B. Lent transforms the house into a circus, with ring and stage, and reopen - September 25, 1865: Lewis B. Lent becomes manager.
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  • ...aff Mills was born in London on August 11, 1873. He was the son of Halford Lewis Mills of Smarden, Kent, and Mary Fenn Wagstaff. Halford Mills was the propr ...Agricultural Hall in December 1886, and in the spring of 1889, [[Barnum & Bailey]]’s ''Greatest Show On Earth'' came to Olympia, and returned there for su
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  • ...her exotic animals led to the creation of a bona fide traveling menagerie. Bailey's increasing prosperity convinced other farmers from the Somers area to go ...lasted from 1876-78. After Barnum's death, Bailey took their Barnum & Bailey "Greatest Show on Earth" on an extensive European tour, from 1897 to 1902,
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