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Henderson is a county seat with a revitalizing historic downtown. Kerr Lake State Recreation Area's campgrounds, boat ramps, and fishing piers on the 50,000-acre reservoir draw anglers and campers from across the region, and the Virginia border is just miles away.
What You'll Find There
Highlights include livestock shows, 4-H and FFA competitions, tobacco heritage exhibits, local food vendors, and a community fair reflecting the agricultural traditions of the upper Roanoke River corridor.
The Fair
Henderson's Vance County Fair — not to be confused with Henderson County in the mountains — celebrates a Roanoke River Piedmont county where tobacco farming has historically dominated and where Kerr Lake (Buggs Island Lake) provides some of Virginia and North Carolina's best fishing in one of the largest reservoirs in the eastern United States.
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