SALE CREEK — Mayor Weston Wamp and other Hamilton County officials announced Wednesday before a crowd of about 40 people that McDonald Farm will be the site of the county fair this November over Veterans Day weekend.
McDonald Farm is a 2,170-acre plot of land in Sale Creek the county bought in 2021 for $16 million. The county fair had previously been held at Chester Frost Park. Wamp said during Wednesday’s announcement at McDonald Farm that the new site is a better place to have the county fair.
“For those of you who’ve not been to McDonald’s Farm, you’ve now seen, if you’ve not been here before, that this is an ideal location to have a county fair,” Wamp said.
The fair, which will be called the Little Debbie Hamilton County Fair, is sponsored by McKee Foods Corp., the snack company known for its Little Debbie cakes and founded in the Chattanooga area in the 1930s.
“When the McKee Foods team heard Mayor Wamp’s vision for the Hamilton County Fair, it didn’t take us long to say, ‘Yes,'” said McKee Foods president and COO Chris McKee during Wednesday’s announcement. “I’m looking forward to seeing all of you back here in November.”