“Bird’s eye view of the Falmouth Fair Grounds, the place where everybody has a good time – young,
old, and indifferent.  The half-mile track, which is the best in the state, is in good condition, and will
be the scene of some good racing today and tomorrow.” Falmouth Outlook, September 27, 1907

 

Fair Grounds, Falmouth, 1912	Falmouth Fairgrounds, Falmouth

 

Falmouth Fairgrounds	Falmouth Fair  Grounds,  1912	Track at the Fair Grounds, 1908

 

Fair Scenes, c. 1952

"Friday, Clyde Coleman, of Falmouth, was killed at the Falmouth Fair; he had 50 cents bet on the horse that won; he stepped on the track and the third place horse struck him in the back and killed him.”  From the Williamstown Courier, October 3,1907

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,  April 17, 1887

A “wheel” in 1887 is what we know as a bicycle.

New York Clipper, June 3, 1882

 

Fairgrounds grandstand, c. 1940

 

Grandstand crowd at the fairgrounds
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

Fair Scene
From a Facebook post by Greg Justice

 

November 23, 1921 Enoch Browning and his pacing mare, C. King. from a Facebook post by Rick Brown	Scene at the Fairground

 

1912

Spirit of the Times, June 4, 1853

”Falmouth will celebrate the Fourth of July by horse racing at the fair grounds“
Courier-Journal, June 19, 1882

Billboard, August 17, 1946 “Any show except girl and snake”	“French Fries” Billboard, May 31, 1947

Billboard ad, November 26. 1955	Billboard, April 17, 1920	Billboard, November 24, 1956

 

The Clermont Courier, September 3, 1884

“Among the best in the State of Kentucky”

That's Jodi Chapman, left, with the Overall 4-H Reserve Showman, at
the 1988 Pendleton County Fair, with a purchaser from Northern Kentucky
 Bank and Trust of Alexandria. The bank paid $1.30 a pound for the 1178 lb. steer.

 

Poem on the Falmouth Fair

The 1913 Pendleton Fair Book. (pdf)
From a Facebook post by Ben Wolfe