Mannington District Fair

From Mannington District Fair Website:

In 1932 a group of Mannington Citizens formed the Mannington District Fair, and for two years held its exhibits in the Bartlett Building. It started as a cooperation organization with practically all the work donated, and to an extent the same policy still holds.

In 1934 it was decided to incorporate the Fair to prevent the individual participants suffering the danger of liability since the Fair had grown to sizeable proportions. The incorporators were: A.G. Metz; A.J. Hess; G. Pearl Freeland; Homer N. Campbell; John L. Thorne, Vice President; George F. Graham, Secretary; N.E. Lowe, Treasurer; and Albert B. Bauman, General Manager. The Board of Directors were: H.G. Moore, J.L. Thorne, A.B. Bauman, G.P. Freeland, John Koen, Daler Hamilton, I.W. Tapp, Ivan Hall and A.G. Metz.

From that time on the Fair Association enjoyed such expansion that now they have over 60,000 visitors each year.

The principles on which the Fair was founded have been strictly adhered to. The Mannington District Fair of Mannington, West Virginia, has for 86 years, continuously striven, and successfully so, to keep its culture and traditions.