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Dance On!

West (comma) Texas is just north of Waco and is an agricultural town with roots going back to the mid-1800s. When the railroad came through in 1881 one of the major landowners was Thomas West, who was instrumental in establishing a depot for the farmers to ship their corn and cotton to market. By the 1890s an influx of Czech immigrants settled and developed the area into a town with businesses that supported the farmers fueling the growth of the area, which continues today.

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La Grange's Pavilion Hall Hits the Century Mark

The Pavilion Hall, on the north bluff next to the Fayette County Fair Grounds in La Grange, will turn a century old this October of 2024. In March of 1924, the Fayette County Fair Association (first established pre-1888) began looking for a suitable location to move their county fair which had been called the La Grange Industrial and Flower Show which had been spread over different areas of La Grange, including the Casino Hall and the Courthouse Square upon which a mammoth dance platform had been built. La Grange had been feeling envious of other area towns that had a fairgrounds (Flatonia, Gonzales, New Braunfels) and a group of citizens re-established the Fair Association which gone the way of many most volunteer organizations. In January of 1924, a serious group of citizens reformed the Fayette County Fair Association and received a charter from the state. The founders were an ambitious group and declared that a fall county fair would be held in October of that same year.

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