Exhibit A reinforcing that history has had, well, a lot of exhibits through the years.

The Leavenworth County Fair soon will celebrate its centennial as it draws closer to 100 years in existence.

The annual fair got its start in 1926 with a celebration of a bumper crop of corn in downtown Tonganoxie. The next year, the event celebrated corn and apples.

The event officially was known as the Leavenworth County Fair in 1928 and in 1938 moved from downtown to its current site along Kansas Highway 16 at the Leavenworth County Fairgrounds.

Though the latest Census statistics have not been released, Leavenworth County had 1,213 farms in 2017. That was a 7% increase from 2012. Land in farms by acres also was up during that time span, with there being 194,636 acres of farmland in 2017, an increase of 6%.

The average size of each farm was down, but only by 1%. The average size in 2017 was 160 acres.

Leavenworth County, as of 2017, ranked No. 6 out of 65 counties in the state in sales from nursery, greenhouse, floriculture and sod ($3.6 million), No. 8 out of 57 in the fruit, tree nut and berry sales ($185,000) and No. 10 out of 82 in vegetables, melons, potatoes and sweet potatoes ($498,000).

Overall rankings have Leavenworth County at No. 100 out of all 105 counties in the state, but the highest sales were in grains, oilseeds, dry beans and dry peas ($23.56 million)

As far as livestock, the county’s biggest sales came from cattle and cows, but their highest rank horses, ponies, mules, burros and donkeys.

Leavenworth County ranked No. 8 out of 99 counties in that category with $390,000. But Cattle and calves accounted for $9.54 million despite being ranked No. 100 out of 105 counties in the state.