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A SHORT HISTORY OF POWERS' CROSSROADS
COUNTRY FAIR AND ART FESTIVAL

Powers' Crossroads Country Fair and Art Festival was formed in 1971 by local and well known artist Tom Powers. The site of the festival was on the beautiful grounds of the Powers Family Plantation.

Exhibitors were set up along winding paths under shady trees. The Festival was a huge success from its beginning and involved all the communities of Heard and Coweta Counties.

Mr. Powers operated the Festival for 3½ years with much cooperation and assistance of these communities and their civic and church organizations. For various reasons, health and otherwise, Mr. Powers had to give up the operation of the festival and in the middle of that last year the Festival was under the supervision of the Newnan Coweta Chamber of Commerce.

In 1975 Coweta Festivals, Inc., was formed as an umbrella organization of six Non-Profit Civic groups: Newnan Coweta Chamber of Commerce, the Newnan Coweta Art Association, The Newnan Coweta Jaycees, The Pilot Club of Newnan, The Newnan Coweta Chapter of Professional Secretaries International (later changed to International Association of Administrative Professionals) and the 4-H Boys and Girls of Coweta County.

These non-profit organizations purchased the Festival site a few years later when the land became available. The 86 acres now belongs to Coweta Festivals, Inc., and the annual Festival continues to be a success. It has become well known throughout the nation and has been selected several times by the Southeast Tourism Society as one of "The Top Twenty Events" for the month of September.

Two hundred fifty talented artists and craftsmen from across the nation gather each Labor Day Weekend to display their works from Saturday through Monday.

One of the many highlights of the Festival is the abundance of delicious country cooking. Twenty non-profit booths staffed by volunteers prepare the tasty fares.

All proceeds after expenses are utilized by the civic groups for their youth services and community projects.

Every Labor Day Weekend

Saturday, Sunday & Monday
9am 'til 5pm
Newnan, Georgia

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