The Summit County Fair is less than two weeks away. We hope you plan to support
our 4-H youth by attending the county fair, touring the barns and even if you can’t
participate in the annual livestock auction, just show up and support with your presence!
During your visit to the Summit County fairgrounds, we hope that you will be sure to
stop by and visit our Summit County Farm Bureau Farm Antiques Museum; pick up
pamphlets from our Farm Bureau corner, add your farm to our county map, vote on the
farm dog and farm cat of the year contests and gather a little information from the
educational videos throughout the various vignettes.
You might be wondering about the evolution of our SCFB Farm Antiques Museum …
here’s a little History of the SCFB Farm Antiques Museum:
As rapid urbanization encroached on Summit County and the surrounding areas, the
local area faced a serious loss of historic artifacts and memorabilia relating to
agriculture and the generations of farm families who laid the groundwork for modern
farming.
In response to this trend, three long-time members of the Summit County Farm Bureau
Board of Trustees – Mrs. Jean Call of Stow, Mr. John Graf of Copley, and Mr. Dean
Hartong of Green – formed a committee to build a museum and start collecting
antiques.
In July 1991, the Summit County Farm Bureau Board of Trustees completed
construction on a 48′ x 80′ building on the Summit County Fair Grounds. This building
was then officially dedicated to the Summit County Fair Board as a farm museum.
The public response to this concept was overwhelmingly positive and antique donations
started to come in from the surrounding areas. As a result, the original building was
expanded in 1994 to its present size of 68’ X 125.’ Substantial additions to the side and
the rear of the building provided even more room to house the farming history of the
county.
By 2002, the 8,500 square foot SCFB Farm Antiques Museum and its contents were
valued at approximately $100,000. (The land on which the museum sits was donated to
the non-profit Summit County Farm Bureau by the county Fair Board).
We hope to see you at the fair BUT if you are unable to attend in person, click on the
link below for a virtual tour:
https://summitcountyfarmbureau.org/2020/08/01/summit-county-farm-bureau-antiques-
museum/