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Laurel is one of Mississippi's most revitalized small cities — the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art (an outstanding American art collection in a beautiful Beaux-Arts building), the Landrum's Homestead (featured on HGTV's "Home Town"), and the beautiful bungalow neighborhoods being restored by Ben and Erin Napier have given Laurel a national profile.
What You'll Find There
Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, carnival rides, live entertainment, local food vendors, and a fair in the longleaf pine and hardwood timber country between Hattiesburg and Meridian.
The Fair
Held annually in Laurel, the Jones County Fair is an October fair in the Piney Woods of southeast Mississippi, celebrating the timber, naval stores, and artistic heritage of a county famous as the "Free State of Jones" — whose Union sympathizers under Newton Knight refused to secede from the Union during the Civil War — and as the inspiration for the HGTV series "Home Town."
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