Clay Today will test your knowledge weekly and provide interesting facts on various topics. This week, our focus is the Clay County Agriculture Fair, straight from its website: In the early …
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Clay Today will test your knowledge weekly and provide interesting facts on various topics.
This week, our focus is the Clay County Agriculture Fair, straight from its website: In the early 1970s, community leaders got together with Jesse Godbold, Clay County Agricultural agent, and decided the county’s agricultural identity and heritage were worthy of being showcased for county residents. Among those forward thinkers who dreamed up the fair was Claude Kelly, now identified as its “father.” The dream took shape in 1972, when the county purchased 28 acres of land for the Clay County Agriculture Center through a sizable donation by the Paul E. Reinhold family. In the late 1970s, a group of citizens and community leaders formed the Clay County Fair Association; they were granted a state charter in 1982. The first fair was held from March 31 to April 4, 1987.
