• Spring 2012: MainStreet Mardi Gras

“MainStreet Mardi Gras” Event - Date TBA

• Join us downtown for Music, Entertainment, Food & Vendor Booths on Market Street and inside Merchant locations.

• Multiple prize drawings, and a grand prize!

• Mardi Gras hats, beads, maskes, etc. available for sale!

• May 2012

- Strawberry Festival
- Strawberry Parade

www.tnstrawberryfestival.com

• July 20 & 21, 2012 - Scopes Trial Play & Festival

Featuring the play that re-enacts portions of the Scopes-Evolution Trial of 1925, and also tells the story about how the famous trial came to be litigated in the small southern town of Dayton, Tennessee!

Live performances Friday 8:00 pm & Saturday 3:00 & 8:00 pm

Also enjoy:
• Food & Vendor Booths
• Antique Tractors & Vintage Car Show
• Downtown Merchants offering fabulous sales & specials

• August 2012: Midsummer's Night Out

Enjoy a special evening of elegance, pampering, beauty, health, shopping, food & fun!

Date to be set.

• October 26 & 27, 2012: PumpkinFest

The annual PumpkinFest is now a tradition in downtown Dayton, Tennessee! The festival offers our kids an alternative to traditional Halloween activities. Join us for two days of Fall Festival Fun, Food, and Entertainment & Halloween festivities for the whole family!

Come join the “Scary-oke” Contest

….or enter the “Perfectly Pumpkin” Pie & Cake Baking Contest!

For a 2012 PumpkinFest Schedule click here

Food and Craft Vendor Booths will be set-up on the Courthouse lawn

Click here for Booth Application

PumpkinFest 2009 Photo Gallery

PumpkinFest 2008 Photo Gallery

PumpkinFest 2007 Photo Gallery

PumpkinFest 2006 Photo Gallery

	PumpkinFest T-shirts from 2010 still on sale Click here to order using PayPal.
	2011 PumpkinFest T-shirts now on sale Click here to order using PayPal.

• November 2012: Annual Downtown Dayton Holiday Stroll

Come enjoy the kick-off to the Christmas Shopping Season!

Stroll our downtown shops from 5-9 pm. for Christmas Open House with fabulous sales, refreshments & drawings for prizes!

Holiday Stroll 2009 Photo Gallery

Children's Choir - Holiday Stroll 2009 Photo Gallery

• December 3, 2011: Christmas Downtown

• Special sales events! Shop all day at downtown Merchants.
• Photos with Santa
• Christmas Critters - click here to download application
• Music & Vendore Booths on the Courthouse lawn
• 3:30 pm: Parade Line-up
• 4:30 pm: The Horse & Carriage Parade - click here to download application
• And afterwards ~ Candlelight caroling at the courthouse
• Ornaments for Sale: Click here for more details.

Historic Rhea County Courthouse Christmas Ornaments - $20 each

The NEW 2011 Ornament – Rhea Central High School, the fifth in the Historic Rhea County Ornament series, is available for purchase. All proceeds go to the downtown projects of MainStreet Dayton. For more information on each of the five ornaments, and how to purchase Click here.

Christmas Parade Schedule: Click Here

Christmas Downtown 2007 Photo Gallery

Christmas Downtown 2009 Photo Gallery

Christmas Downtown 2010 Photo Gallery