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The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition was held in what is now Audubon Park in
1884-1885. This early "world's fair" commemorated the first shipment of cotton from the United States in 1784 and
was intended also to celebrate the recovery of the South from the Civil War. Like our second world's fair, the Louisiana
World Exposition, held a century later, the Cotton Exposition was a financial failure but a popular success and brought
lasting and positive changes to the cityscape: the early expo led to the development of Audubon Park; the 1984 fair
triggered the revitalization of the Warehouse District.
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