Schedule of Festival Events

 

As the Lexington County Peach Festival celebrates its 54th year on July 4th, the Festival offers a full day of fun with the celebration of America’s birthday. Arts and crafts, children’s rides, and great foods will be available for varying fees in the Gilbert Community Park on Rikard Circle. A parade, three stages of entertainment, an antique tractor and farm equipment display, a car show, a Revolutionary War re-enactment, and a fireworks show will be available without charge. The Revolutionary War re-enactment will host cannon firings at specific times of the day as well as a reading of the Declaration of Independence at noon.

The parade begins at 9:30 a.m., and the fireworks show begins at 10:00 p.m. The Junior Division Peach Pageant will be held on July 4th at 2:00p.m. and the Lexington County Peach Pageant will follow at 6:00 p.m. Baby Division pageants are scheduled for 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 30. All pageants will be held in the Gilbert Primary School cafetorium.

Enjoy the activities, the shade, and the bar-be-cue, hot dogs, hamburgers, and peach cobbler. Plate BBQ lunches will be available in the park beginning at 11 a.m. Other foods available are BBQ pork and chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, peach ice cream, peach cobbler, peach slush, peach parfaits, peach zip, peach berry split, peach sundaes, peach tea, peach almond delights, fresh peaches, soft drinks, bottled water, and iced tea. Food and drink items will be served until 11 p.m., but plate lunches and cobbler will sell out early.

The Gilbert Community Club has been sponsoring the Lexington County Peach Festival since 1958.

 

Event Date Location :

 

Art Contest                                          May 2010                                All Gilbert Schools

Miss & Master Peach Pageants            June 30, 6:00p                         Gilbert Primary School Cafetorium

Peach Recipe Contest                         July 4, 9:00a                            Gilbert Primary School Cafetorium

Peach Parade                                     July 4, 9:30a                            Hampton, Main Streets

Antique Car Show                                July 4, 8:00a-2:00p                  Gilbert Middle School

Revoluntionary War Re-enactment         July 4, 8:30a-4:30p                  East of Gilbert Middle School

Junior Peach Pageant                          July 4, 2:00p                           Gilbert Primary School

Miss Peach Pageant                           July 4, 6:00p                            Gilbert Primary School Cafetorium

Firework Show                                    July 4, 10:00p                          Behind Gilbert Primary School

Art & Craft Show                                 July 4, all day                          Rikard Circle (Community Park)

Live Entertainment                              July 4, all day                           Gilbert Community Park

Tractor Show                                      July 4, all day                           Gilbert Community Park