Raw States
Page County Heritage Festival
Luray, VA · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 9–10, 2027
- Where
- Page Valley Fairgrounds, 15 Fairlane Dr · Luray · VA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
This crafts and heritage fair at the Page Valley Fairgrounds features local artisans, a steam and gas engine show and traditional food each October. Now in its 57th year, it is organized by the Page County Heritage Association as a county-wide community tradition.
The history within reach
The Page Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair is a week-long county fair held each August at the Page Valley Fairgrounds in Luray.
A Pentagon mathematician spent three years tapping stalactites across three and a half acres of cave, finding the ones already close to pitch, sanding them to true, and wiring rubber mallets to a console.
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Mount Jackson built this festival around its potato harvest, and in just a few years it has grown into a community tradition drawing more than 3,000 people to Lions Park each September.
New Market's Main Street empties for a holiday parade each December, after an afternoon of downtown open houses, a shop-local scavenger hunt, and carols sung in the street.
The Confederacy, short of men in the valley in May 1864, marched the entire cadet corps of the Virginia Military Institute up from Lexington, some of them fifteen years old, and put them into the line.