Brown Co. Fair

From Brown Co. Fair Website:

The Brown County Agricultural Board held the first fair in Brown County in the fall of 1872. The fair was held in the present Brown County courthouse yard. The following year the fair was held in the grove of Robert N. Curry located near the present location of Brown County Elementary School (formerly North Grade School).

In 1873 an organizational meeting was held at the Brown County courthouse by William T. Hersman, president; David K. Watson, vice president; A.K. Lowry, recording secretary; William L. Taylor, treasurer; and Martin Brooks, corresponding secretary. These officers and directors selected fifteen acres of ground in the northeast part of Mt. Sterling as a fairgrounds site. They paid seventy-five dollars an acre for it. A third-of-a-mile track was built and the first fair at the new location was held from October 23 to October 27, 1874.

In 1878, seven more acres of ground were purchased to enlarge the fairgrounds. With the additional land, the race track was enlarged to its present lenght of a half-mile. An amphitheater, floral hall, implement and grain room, judges' stand, and one-hundred and ninety-six stalls for stock and several box stalls were also constructed.