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The Chino Fairgrounds began in 1942 as a camp for housing laborers working on WPA projects in the Chino area. The facility was also used as a German POW camp, housing as many as 500 prisoners.

In April 1945, the camp became a sub-depot to the Pomona Ordnance Depot. By May a fire erupted, resulting from an explosion on the site. A newspaper article relates the difficulties of the firefighters as they encountered gas bombs, hand grenades, and small arms ammunition stored at the facility.

Eleven years later the property was sold to the San Bernardino Junior Fairgrounds, the beginnings of the fairgrounds you know today. Since 1956, the property has been used as a fairground.