1996: The first Country Stampede Music Festival takes place

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The festival was held every year at Tuttle Creek State Park until is moved to Topeka, Kansas, in 2019, where it is still one of the largest music festivals in the Midwest. In 2020 organizers renamed the festival “Country Stampede at the Heartland.”