DeKalb County Fair.
| The DeKalb County Fair, located
in Alexandria, was chartered April 15, 1856 by a special act of the
state legislature with the fair date to take place October 5 – 7 of
that same year. A snowfall caused the fair to be postponed until
the following Monday.
The 1856 fair had a grandstand but it had no top and rail pens served as stables. Although there was no music, this fair was still a great success by anyone’s standards; providing the farmers of DeKalb County a place to show crops and livestock. As was common in antebellum times, anywhere large crowds formed sometimes slaves were sold. |