About Panola County Fair

The Panola County Fair in Carthage is an August fair in the Piney Woods of deep East Texas, celebrating the timber, natural gas, and cattle heritage of a county that sits on one of the most significant natural gas fields in North America and is the birthplace of country music legend Jim Reeves.

What to Expect

Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, carnival rides, local food vendors, and a community fair in the pine-forested hills of Panola County on the Texas-Louisiana border.

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Carthage is the seat of Panola County and birthplace of Jim Reeves — the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, Panola College, and the surrounding Piney Woods and Toledo Bend Reservoir (the second largest reservoir in Texas) define this corner of Deep East Texas.

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