08/18/2026
YOU CAME. YOU SHOWED UP. YOU BROKE RECORDS.
The 100th Scott County Fair is officially in the books.
And first things first… we broke records for HEAT. Dadgummit, it was HOT.
But more importantly — Scott County showed up.
We set a new gate record with WELL OVER 5,000 people in attendance.
For a little county fair in Scott County, Tennessee, celebrating its 100th year, that means more to us than we can possibly say.
THANK YOU.
A HUGE shoutout to the Town of Oneida and Takahata Precision Tennessee, who made it possible for our community to enjoy the fair with FREE GATE ADMISSION.
But this fair wasn't made by one or two sponsors.
It was made by every single person who showed up.
Every business that sponsored the fair or paid to hang a sign.
Every volunteer who worked when it was hotter than blue blazes.
Every person who entered an exhibit.
Every family who walked through those gates.
Every kid who showed an animal.
Every parent who hauled somebody to a pageant.
Every person who bought a ticket, rode a ride, ate fair food, or stood around visiting with somebody they hadn't seen in a while.
YOU made the 100th happen.
And we hope you saw that we're working to grow.
This year, with the help of Oneida Schools FFA and UT Extension, we brought livestock back to the fair — goats, chickens and the livestock show! A huge thank-you to both organizations for putting in the work to make that happen.
Then there were the exhibits.
Y'all…
MORE THAN 2,000 EXHIBITS.
You read that right.
More than 2,000 things that somebody grew, canned, baked, quilted, stitched, painted, photographed, created or made with their own two hands.
THAT is what a county fair is all about.
We had more than 120 girls participate in our Fairest of the Fair pageants, and one of the most special moments of our 100th celebration was the inaugural Miss Sunshine pageant.
We can already tell you this:
Miss Sunshine is here to stay.
And then there were the candied apples.
Scott County, once again, YOU BOUGHT THE CANDIED APPLES.
There was heat.
There were goats.
There were chickens.
There were pageants.
There were tractors, shriners, game wardens.
There were 2,000+ exhibits.
There were candied apples.
There were midway rides spinning people who probably had no business getting on them after eating said candied apples.
And yes… there was a little vomit on the midway.
That's a county fair, folks.
To the Town of Oneida, who does so much behind the scenes to help make this fair possible…
To our sponsors…
To FFA and UT Extension…
To the exhibitors…
To the pageant families…
To the vendors…
To the people working the gates…
To the volunteers who worked long, hot hours…
And to every single one of you who walked through those gates:
THANK YOU!!!!
Our fair may be small. There are things we want to add, things we want to improve and plenty of ideas already brewing.
But we're building.
We're growing.
And after seeing Scott County show up the way you did for number 100, we're pretty excited about where we go from here.
We made it to 100.
Not everybody gets to say that.
So here's to the people who built this fair before us, the people who kept it going, and the people who showed up this year to make sure the tradition continues.
Scott County, here's looking at 101.
