Raw States
Court Days
Mount Sterling, KY · Quirky
- When
- October 16–18, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Mount Sterling · Mount Sterling · KY
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Kentucky's oldest outdoor market, a sprawling trading day and flea market that has filled downtown Mount Sterling's streets since 1794. Held the weekend before the third Monday in October, it draws vendors and shoppers from well beyond Montgomery County, swelling the small town far past its normal population. The event includes live music, food and thousands of vendor booths.
The history within reach
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Kentucky's oldest outdoor market, a sprawling trading day and flea market that has filled downtown Mount Sterling's streets since 1794.
Somewhere between ten and twenty thousand people camped in a field for a week of preaching, in a state whose largest town held under two thousand.
The limestone under this country puts calcium in the grass and the water, which is the standard explanation for why Kentucky raises racehorses.
Daniel Boone cut the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and built a stockade here, the second English settlement in Kentucky.
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