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Text Box: Grandpa’s Farm & Pleasant Hill

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North Central Iowa Railroad Club

Our 154th FAIR, will be JULY 17-2, 2013

Grandpa’s Farm & Pleasant Hill

Are proud to be a partner site of

the Silos & Smokestacks

National Heritage Area

Franklin County Fair

P.O. Box 442

1008 Central Ave. West

Hampton, IA  50441

Phone 641-456-2049

    Grandpa’s Farm has old time farming demonstrations with vintage equipment powered by draft horses, steam engines, and antique tractors.  Demonstrations include threshing with hand fed wooden thresher , plowing, including

an eight bottom gang plow, corn shelling, milling, binding, saw mill, rock crusher, potato harvest, etc.

    Pleasant Hill is an early 1900’s town built on the fairgrounds.  There are demonstrations, craftsmen, entertainment, and reenactments.  The Franklin County Historical Museum is on the fairgrounds and open daily during the fair.

     Grandpa’s Farm      Sponsors

AgVantage FS

BASF

Dekalb Seeds

Dupont Ag

Fahrmann Heating & Plumbing

Farm Credit Services

FC Farmers Elevator

Fierce

Franklin Grassland Seeds

Garst Seeds

John Wearda State Farm Insurance

Latham Seeds

Pinnacle

Pioneer Seeds

Pla-Ground Family Farms

Sukup Manufacturing

Syngenta

Twin State/Liquid Grow

Pleasant Hill Sponsors

Adams Concrete   

First National Bank

First Security Bank

Giddings Signs

Hampton Hardware

Hampton Heating

Hampton JayCee’s

Innovative Ag Services

Jasperson Insurance

John and Joy Lyman

Koenen-Collins Chiropractic Clinic

Korner Bakery

Liquor Barn 

Mort’s Inc.

Murphy’s Heating and Plumbing

Rick’s Pharmacy

Sensor and Wagner Family Dentistry

Staley Real estate

Sukup Mfg.

Twin State

Grandpa’s Farm and Pleasant Hill

are free attractions at the Fair.

 

 

 

TRACTOR and PICKUP PULL,

WITH MODIFIED TRACTOR CLASS

SATURDAY, July 20, 9:30 a.m.,

weigh in 8:30 a.m.

Sponsored by LG Seeds

DRAFT HORSE PULL OVERLOAD PULL

BY IOWA DRAFT HORSE PULLERS                        

SUNDAY, July 21, 1 P.M.,

weigh in 12:30 p.m.

New machinery expo and displays of antique machinery

Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area is one of 49 federally designated heritage areas in the nation and is an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service. Through the development of a network     of sites, programs and events, SSNHA's mission is to interpret farm life, agribusiness and rural communities-past and present.  The Franklin County Fair and Grandpa’s Farm are proud to be part       of the SSNHA and are committed to preserving and telling the story of agriculture.