“County fairs are not gotten up for financial gain. They never pay for the cost of running them, but they do pay big dividends in educating people to the vast amount of the good they accomplish.”
— The Meeker Herald, Aug. 20, 1921
RBC | Rio Blanco County’s first official county fair opened Aug. 25, 1921, but the idea had been taking shape since shortly after the end of World War I.
In June 1919,…