September 23-28, 2013

Fair Information

Inside Straight

Brown County Fair Fact

The first Junior Fair Board was organized in the early 1960's by 4-H agent Ralph LaRue.

Fair Fact:

In 1985, the first Cake Auction of champion cakes of Floral Hall....
In 1972 the fair planned its first Demolition Derby for a Friday night event....
In 1969 the Brown County Fair became a 5-day event lasting Tuesday through Saturday. ...
In 1961 skydivers from Williamsburg, Ohio were hired to make nine jumps onto the fairgrounds for $125....
In 1952 School Day was established with County Superintendent H.D. West, allowing school buses to bring students to the fair....
In 1945 a Memorial Service for all men and women who lost their lives from Brown County in WW II....
In 1923 at 3 o'clock each day all horse winners of any premium for that day paraded in the ring or forfeited their premiums. ...
In 1939 the fair book boasted of the "Little State Fair" and so it has ever since....
Today's center ring gazebo was erected sometime between 1902 and 1908....
In 1988 with the elmination of the Sunday fair, the opening was held on Monday rather than Tuesday. The schools let out all week for the fair....
In 1981 the Russellville Kiwanis Club sponsored Homing Pigeon races....
In 1972 the fair planned its first Demolition Derby for a Friday night event....
In 1967 was the first year the fair book cover contest was sponsored by the fair board....
In 1965 a rule was set into place that no pop was to be sold in cans because of the danger of people slipping on them....
In 1960 general admission prices were raised to $1.00....
The 100th Brown County Fair was held in 1951....
In 1931 single admission was $0.25...
By 1925 or 1926 is was first heralded as the "Little State Fair"...
In 1919 membership tickets were $2.00...
In 1860 instead of tickets, a badge was issued to fairgoers to move in and out of the fair....
In 1978 the Pork Producers began selling pork tenderlions sandwiches at the fair. They have sold over 1/2 million ternderlions....
In 1965 some Preble County fair board members brought the makings of the first speed tractor pull to the Brown County Fair. The initial weight - A Tractor!...
In 1979 the larger wooden grandstand burned three days after the close of the annual fair....
In 1964, the small wooden grandstand which housed cattle underneath burned to the ground one week before the fair opened....
The first Junior Fair Board was organized in the early 1960's by 4-H agent Ralph LaRue....
In 1943, during World War II, a two-day Junior Fair was held in place of the county fair....
In the 1920's and 1930's the Cincinnati Gas and Light Band would entertain from a stage in Floral Hall....
Floral Hall houses over 4,000 exhibits of domestic arts, farm and garden produce, antiques, and creative arts during fair week....
In 1853, approximately four acres were purchased at present location ...
The fair was held late in the year because of harvesting and housing of tobacco....