Neshoba County Fair
Fri, Jul 21
|Neshoba County
Family, Fun and Entertainment, that is the Neshoba County Fair otherwise known as Mississippi's Giant House Party
Time & Location
Jul 21, 2023, 9:00 AM – Jul 28, 2023, 9:00 PM
Neshoba County, Co Rd 147, Mississippi 39350, USA
About the event
The Neshoba County Fair has its roots in the agricultural fairs and the church camp meetings popular in the nineteenth century. The Lake Patron's Union in Scott County was a regional fair held on the former site of a Methodist camp meeting and served as a model for Neshoba Countians wanting to establish a fair of their own.
The first fair was called the Coldwater Fair and was held in 1889. Two years later in 1891 the fair was organized as a private corporation called the Neshoba County Stock and Agricultural Fair Association and was moved to its present site. Admission was charged for the first time in order to operate the fair. The Neshoba County Fair remains a self-supporting non-profit organization today with operating funds derived mainly from admissions and concessions.
Families coming to the Fair began camping on the grounds for the duration of the fair. In 1894…