The Worth County Fairgrounds Assn. has received a donation from the family of the late Allen Davidson in memory of their father who was a local farmer and a former Worth County Farm Bureau board member. Mr. Davidson was an enthusiastic supporter of our local 4-H and FFA youth and participated in many area events with his horse-drawn equipment.
In the fall of 1994, the county Farm Bureau board discussed procuring land and developing a “Fairgrounds” facility in the county with an emphasis on use as a 4-H and FFA Junior Livestock facility. Over the years, various groups had “looked into” procuring a permanent fairgrounds. Board member Allen Davidson told of at least one serious discussion approximately 40 years before about the need for a fairgrounds, and he himself had been a part of an unsuccessful attempt in the more recent past. Those various efforts had “gone nowhere” but the need was still there. The Farm Bureau Board was unanimous in its support of the project and its willingness to put feet to the effort to find a property and get it developed. Allen served on the committee to search out a suitable property and those initial efforts resulted in what is today’s Worth County Fairgrounds.
The Worth County Fairgrounds Association would like to thank the Davidson family for their memorial gift, but especially for the encouragement and support that Allen gave to the fairgrounds project.
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