The Holmes County Antique Festival has much more than an antique market, arts and crafts and an antique car show. There is live entertainment, open markets, parades, kids activities and delicious food.
2023 DATE: October 7-8, 2023
Location: Downtown Millersburg
Website: https://holmescountyantiquefestival.org/
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This post documents my experience on October 5, 2013.
Not only is Millersburg the Holmes county seat…
…it’s also the perfect place to go antiquing…
…with its cute downtown…
…interesting window displays…
…plentiful antique dealers…
…and, of course, an annual Holmes County Antique Festival.
Located primarily around the county courthouse…
…the festival’s main attraction was the antique market…
…where interesting items lined a sidewalk…
…that led you to a collection of antique vendors…
…who sold glassware…
…furniture…
…tools…
…unique decor…
…and samplings of what you could find at local antique businesses (Starlight).
To add even more variety…
…there was also an Arts & Crafts section…
…with offerings that included pottery (Menuez’s Mud)…
…jewelry…
…cement goose and bear outfits…
…and some cool tile and glass block crafts (Twiggy’s Crafts).
But even if you weren’t a shopper, you could take advantage of two stages of entertainment…
…raffles…
…kids’ games…
…and a selection of vittles from standard festival food trucks…
…and a chicken barbeque tent run by the Rotary.
Just don’t try to refill your water bottle from the watering trough…
…it hasn’t been used since 1939.