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Deerfield Fair

Deerfield, NH · Festival

When

October 1–4, 2026

Where

Deerfield Fairgrounds · Deerfield · NH

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A four day agricultural fair billed as New England's oldest family fair, with livestock shows, oxen pulls, and a midway. It has run since 1876. The 2026 fair runs October 1 through 4.

The history within reach

• Deerfield Fairsame spot

  A four day agricultural fair billed as New England's oldest family fair, with livestock shows, oxen pulls, and a midway.

• Amoskeag, the biggest mill on earth16 mi

  For a stretch of the late 1800s the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was the largest cotton textile plant in the world, a brick millyard running a mile down the Merrimack with 17,000 workers and its own farms, fire department and social order.

• The Segway, born in the Millyard16 mi

  Dean Kamen's DEKA lab in the old Manchester mills built the self-balancing scooter code-named Ginger, and for a year before the 2001 reveal the tech world speculated it might be a hoverboard, a teleporter, cold fusion.

• The first credit union in America16 mi

  French-Canadian millworkers on Manchester's west side, unwelcome at the banks downtown, pooled their pay in 1908 into La Caisse Populaire Sainte-Marie, the first credit union in the United States.

• The first state lottery17 mi

  A state with no income tax and no sales tax went looking for school money and, in 1964, legalized the first government lottery in twentieth-century America, dressed as a sweepstakes tied to a horse race at Rockingham Park to stay inside federal law.