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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: Re: [OHCLER] Bantam Fairgrounds
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:20:49 -0500


John,I found 2 Bantam fair tickets at different times,and places. That's
been 30 years,but
think the dates were about 1850. One of mine was donated to Bethel's
museum. Other's framed ,and here,someplace.
Bob Slade's edition of 1970+ of Thiery and Mitchell's 1902 history has
Jim Fitzpatrick's band
photographed in front of Floral Hall ,and my Fagley uncles,b 1890-95 as
musicians,if not dad,b 1898.
So,1910? MMom won ticket's to Barnum's Circus while at Bantam
Elementary,and she was b 1901.
My parents,I think,both attended Bantam fair. Fairs ran at more than
one place. 'Boston Fire" is how my parents talked of somebody
mentioning the Owensville Fair. Evert's 1880 history devotes several
pages to the fair.
I started riding Bus 7 with little Jerry White,in 1944,and the Floral
Hall was visable over grubs then. Plus,Riddlebarger
used the ticket office,on the highway,to sell ice balls to Star Light
movie goers about 1950.
Lake Allen did not exsist til the C,G,AND P RR was built about 1878 [?] .

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:04:32 -0500 John Emmitt <>
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> Hi Herman:
>
> You mentioned in a recent message that you have a ticket to the
> Bantam
> Fairgrounds.
>
> Does the ticket have a date on it. If not do you know the last year
> a fair
> was held there.
>
> I think I attended a circus there in 1922 but believe no fairs had
> been
> held there for several
> years before 1922. And maybe a picnic there a few years later. There
> were
> buildings there into the 1940's.
> I looked up the history of the
> county fairgrounds. I believe it said the Bantam fair grounds were
> established in 1847
> as the Clermont Co. Fair. It lasted to 1857 when the County Fair
> moved to
> Lake Allen and
> after a few years the County Fair moved to Owensville where it has
> been
> ever since. Did the
> Bantam Fair run at the same time. Before the age of the automobile,
> Fairs
> were more
> popular and perhaps the Bantam Fair continued for a while into the
> early
> 1900's.
>
> John
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