Witness the opening production number of the 2011 Miss America Pageant! Miss America 2011 was the 84th Miss America pageant. Since the first Miss America pageant was held 99 years ago, in 1921, the Miss America Organization was celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2011. It was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts of Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on Saturday, January 15, 2011. Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron from Virginia, crowned her successor Teresa Scanlan from Nebraska at the end of this event. Scanlan became the first representative from Nebraska to win the Miss America title.