October 13–15, 1938
Preston County holds its first Buckwheat Festival in Kingwood
From October 13 through 15, 1938, Kingwood hosted the first Preston County Buckwheat Festival, an end-of-harvest homecoming organized by the Kingwood Volunteer Fire Department with local civic groups. Activities on the courthouse’s east lawn included crop exhibits, horse trading, a farmers’ auction, community contests, and the crowning of the festival’s first king and queen.
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Preston County Buckwheat Festival commemorative plaque, erected 1991; official festival history; Theresa Marthey, WV News, September 16, 2019; Golden Harvest (1991), p. 2
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King and queen of the first Buckwheat Festival, 1938
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