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erated annually from 1936 to 1952 primarily as a carnival, with a few livestock shows as a sidelight. They wanted something more: to be able to showcase their agricultural and livestock products in much the same way as was done at the Virginia State Fair.

“That was a private fair that was run by one man for profit,” Shirley recalls of the earlier Page County Fair. “If had a hoochie-koochie show and that sort of

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