The rebirth of this old-fashioned community event was the project of citizens participating in the 1989 Allied Arts Cultural Action Plan who wanted to bring back the traditional local county fair. Since that time, the County Fair has become one of our community's most popular annual festivals. 

At the heart of the County Fair each year is good-natured competition in the Home-Centered, Agricultural, and Flower Show events. These blue ribbon competitions recognize skills like sewing, baking, quilting, canning, raising prize livestock and field crops, and growing top quality flowers and agricultural products. If you bake brownies, sew shirts, can tomatoes, bale hay, grow pole beans, or dabble with daffodils, there's a competition to enter at the County Fair this year.

Each person who enters any or all of the eligible County Fair Competitions will be eligible to win the cash premiums of $5 for first place; $4 for second place; and $3 for third place. Call the County Fair Information Line at 209-6030 to request an entry application, or GO HERE.

The County Fair celebrates old-fashioned family values where fairgoers enjoy a return to the days when the local fair was the highlight of the late summer harvest. Crowds hear top-notch fiddle players, smell peanuts roasting, and eat the best barbecue in the region.

Fairgoers see some of the most beautiful flowers and finest fruits and vegetables grown by local farmers and gardeners. Children delight at the sights, sounds, (and smells) of the farm animals on display. Cows, pigs, chickens, goats, rabbits, sheep, and even a bull or two are all part of the agricultural segment of the fair. Children have fun playing old-fashioned games like potato sack races and learning old-fashioned ways like churning butter.

Fairgoers experience what life was like for Hamilton County citizens around the turn of the century and see the heritage and traditions that have made this the "Great State of Tennessee."