San Jose family has history of supporting county fair

The Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Heritage Foundation (FHF) is developing a permanent fairgrounds history museum in the 1949 State House Replica located on the fairgrounds property.

The State House Replica was built to commemorate the centennial celebration of San Jose as the state capitol. The FHF also hopes to raise funds to restore the building to be an accurate copy of the 1849 California State House.

The FHF hopes to house a year-round display of fairgrounds history plus storage...