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Picture Box- Archive photos from the Washington County Fair

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A crowd gathers on a hot, sunny Saturday morning in 1940 for a pig auction sponsored by the morning Observer and afternoon Reporter newspapers.

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A trick rider and his horse pose for a photographer on the track at the grandstand in 1947.

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A youngster rakes straw in an animal barn in 1997.

As traditions go in Washington County, nothing is longer or stronger than the Washington County Fair, which has been going on at Arden for well over a century. The photos here from the Observer-Reporter archive show a few slices of that long history.

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