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The Lenoir County Agricultural Fair has roots that go as deep as 1915 when the Chamber of Commerce formed the first Kinston Fair Association. The Great Kinston Fair was created first as a regional fair and included 10 counties Lenoir Jones Onslow Pender Wayne Greene Duplin Carteret Pitt and Craven. The fair was located on 14 acres rented from the Abbott Farm about a mile out of town going toward Goldsboro. That area of Kinston today is known as Fairfield because it was the site of the Kinston fair for many years.