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Cumberland Fair
Cumberland Center, ME · Festival
- When
- September 27 – October 3, 2026
- Where
- Cumberland Fairgrounds · Cumberland Center · ME
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A country fair at the Cumberland Fairgrounds with harness racing, livestock shows, and a midway, one of Maine's largest agricultural fairs. The 2026 fair, its 154th, runs September 27 through October 3.
The history within reach
- Cumberland Fairsame spot
A country fair at the Cumberland Fairgrounds with harness racing, livestock shows, and a midway, one of Maine's largest agricultural fairs.
- The Desert of Maine6.8 mi
A forty-acre spread of rolling dunes in the middle of Freeport's pine woods: glacial silt exposed when a nineteenth-century farm overgrazed and eroded its topsoil clean off.
Leon Bean stitched leather uppers to rubber boot bottoms because he was tired of coming home with wet feet, sold 100 pairs by mail, and 90 came back when the seams failed.
- Stephen King9.0 mi
Born in Portland and abandoned by his father at two, he wrote in the laundry room of a trailer while teaching high-school English, threw the manuscript of Carrie in the bin, and had it fished out by his wife.
- Portland Head Light12 mi
Commissioned by the first Congress and lit with whale oil while Washington was president, the oldest lighthouse in Maine, in a state that has more of them than any but Michigan.