About Quitman County Fair

The Quitman County Fair in Marks is an August fair in the Mississippi Delta, celebrating the cotton and soybean farming heritage of a Delta county that was the site of Robert F. Kennedy's defining poverty tour in 1967 — images from Marks, Mississippi helped galvanize the War on Poverty and the Poor People's Campaign.

What to Expect

Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, local food vendors, and a community fair in the flat Delta cotton and soybean country of Quitman County.

Visitor Tips

Marks is the Quitman County seat in the heart of the Mississippi Delta — the surrounding cotton fields, the shotgun houses, and the blues heritage of this intensely rural corner of the Delta preserve a landscape that has deeply shaped American culture through its poverty, its music, and its history.

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