Incorporated Towns
Events
*Lineville Bordertown Day
Last Saturday in June
*Wayne County Historical Society
Prairie Trails Museum
July 4th Freedom Ring @ 3:00PM
Pioneer Festival – First Saturday in October
*Seymour Old Settlers
2nd full weekend in July
*Humeston Watermelon Days
3rd Saturday in July
*Wayne County 2024 Fair
July 22 – 29, 2024
Official Wayne County Iowa Fair Website
Few things in life can last for one hundred years and continue to make life changing impacts on so many people. For over one century the Wayne County Fair has influenced area youth with valuable hands-on opportunities and has provided them with the skills needed to become competent, caring, and contributing citizens.
*Clio Festival
*Corydon Old Settlers
3rd weekend in August
August 15th-18th, 2024
One of the first recorded meeting of Corydon Old Settlers was held on August 20, 1887. For an individual to be classified as an “Old Settler” at this event, the person had to be a resident of Wayne County for twenty years. There were 253 people present who signed the book on that date declaring that they were Old Settlers. A public collection was taken up to pay the expenses of $3.78 and a contribution of $2.25 was presented by Lewis Miles.
*Allerton World Fair
Elections
Last Saturday in June
*Wayne County Historical Society
Prairie Trails Museum
July 4th Freedom Ring @ 3:00PM
Pioneer Festival – First Saturday in October
*Seymour Old Settlers
2nd full weekend in July
*Humeston Watermelon Days
3rd Saturday in July
*Wayne County 2024 Fair
July 22 – 29, 2024
Official Wayne County Iowa Fair Website
Few things in life can last for one hundred years and continue to make life changing impacts on so many people. For over one century the Wayne County Fair has influenced area youth with valuable hands-on opportunities and has provided them with the skills needed to become competent, caring, and contributing citizens.
*Clio Festival
*Corydon Old Settlers
3rd weekend in August
August 15th-18th, 2024
One of the first recorded meeting of Corydon Old Settlers was held on August 20, 1887. For an individual to be classified as an “Old Settler” at this event, the person had to be a resident of Wayne County for twenty years. There were 253 people present who signed the book on that date declaring that they were Old Settlers. A public collection was taken up to pay the expenses of $3.78 and a contribution of $2.25 was presented by Lewis Miles.
*Allerton World Fair
Please visit Wayne County Election Website
Cemeteries
Benton – Greenlee | Hazel Dell | Rush
Clay – Cunningham | Lewisburg
Clinton – Greer
Corydon – Corydon | Lacey
Grand River – Clio | Duncan | Evergreen | Hamilton-Hayes | South Lineville
Howard – Banta-Brown-Allen | Fordice-Edmond-Georgetown | Medicineville | Thomas-Shane
Jackson – Moss-Sturgeon | Richardson Chapel | Ripper | Shriver
Jefferson – Big Springs | Shield-Goff | Shriver-Higley | Sinclair-Corder | Woodmansee
Monroe – Genoa | Harris | Pleasantview
Richman – Green Bay | Gwinn | Humeston
South Fork – Dodril | Jones | Promise City | Unmarked
Union – Bethlehem | McDaniel | New York | Ryan
Walnut – Bollman Chapel | Hickerson-Stacker | South Lawn | Sharp | Tharp
Warren – Allerton | Green Ridge | Kilbourn-Rankin-Brown
Washington – Cambria | Hogue | Kirby | Sharon | Hart-Woods
Wright – Adcock | Brown | Confidence | Isolated (Jones)
Alert Iowa
Wayne County Public Notification System
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