The Fair
In Anderson, the Grimes County Fair is a summer fair in the piney woods gateway country of East Central Texas, celebrating the cattle, timber, and watermelon farming heritage of a county defined by its red clay soil and historic county seat.
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Anderson is one of the most preserved 19th-century courthouse towns in Texas — the Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site (an original stagecoach inn), Gibbons Creek Reservoir, and the Sam Houston National Forest are all nearby.
What You'll Find There
Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, carnival rides, local food vendors, and a small-county fair atmosphere in the rolling piney woods country between Houston and Huntsville.
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