About Newport County Fair
The Newport County Fair celebrates Rhode Island's Gilded Age resort county — Newport's Bellevue Avenue "cottages" (actually massive mansions) built by the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Belmonts represent the peak of American wealth display, and the county's agricultural communities on Aquidneck Island and the Sakonnet Peninsula maintain farming traditions alongside this legendary resort heritage.
What to Expect
Expect livestock shows, 4-H competitions, local food vendors, and a community fair celebrating the agricultural and maritime traditions of a county better known for its Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals and the America's Cup sailing races.
Visitor Tips
Newport's The Breakers, Marble House, and Cliff Walk are major tourist attractions. The Naval Station Newport and the International Tennis Hall of Fame add to the county's extraordinary character, and the Sakonnet River wine trail is a growing agricultural attraction in the county's rural southeastern reaches.
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