168th Annual
Gibson County Fair
Trenton, TN
    An Agricultural Fair  

        The Gibson County Fair was organized through the        
Legislative Act of 1855, which encouraged every county in       
Tennessee to hold agricultural fairs in the fall of each year.     
Our first fair was held in October of 1856, and had no Ferris    
Wheels or Polish Sausages, but included entries of yokes of    
oxen, barrels of flour, and homespun cotton and clothing.       
Our fair was not held during the Civil War and first years of     
Reconstruction but started again in 1869 and has not missed  
a year since, making Gibson County's the oldest continuously  
running fair in the South.