Located just east of the Main Building, this covered area serves as a covered space to eat, chat, or just relax while watching the action of the show go by. This is the perfect place to watch the daily parade while enjoying a burger and milkshake from the nearby food stands. 

Located on the museum side of the Main Building, the Show Office serves as the main information hub for all things FCT. Here you can find event information, FCT merchandise, lost & found items, and first aid service.

This space was construted by the Berg Family in 2024. It serves as the club's working office and additional enclosed storage space year-round.

Just north of the hamburger stand, is where you can now find the ever-popular milkshakes! This structure housed the pop stand for many years- which as now been relocated to the burger stand!

The roof extension was added in the Fall of 2025 to provide shade to those waiting for their dairy treats.

Grab a seat on the bleachers or bring your own chair to grab a spot on either side of the road to catch a glimpse of the daily tractor parade. 

The parade route runs down the main drag of the showgrounds. The best spot to hear the parade announcer is on the bleachers or right around the burger stand.

A relatively new display that highlights patents that were granted to Meeker County residents. Steve Becker of Litchfield has documented the majority of patents that were granted in the area and also has on display some of those patented items.

This has also become the collection space for land records and related items.

The Lumber Yard Display shows not only who had operated the lumber yards in all of the communities of Meeker County, but also a selection of hand tools utilized by early carpenters. 

​This display is located in the second bay of the Ideal Building.

Used primarily for the display of hog oilers and other ag related items. Additional displays are of milk cans, past FCT annual show posters, and occasional in-progress projects.

This is in the open face bay of the Ideal Building.

A new display area as of 2024, the Lysdal Family are working on an exhibit of a variety of cast iron ag-related items such as cast iron seats, cast iron corn planter lids, horse drops, cast iron drill ends long with several engines.

​This a new exhibit and is currently considered "in-progress", but had an impressive first year showing.

Primarily a tribute to the dairy industry as envisioned by the late Milford Smith, this display includes a wide variety of dairy related equipment and collectibles from milking machines to memorable from the many creameries that once were a part of the Meeker County Landscape.

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Dale Loch of Watkins area has assembled a broad montage of ag related artifacts from the northern Meeker County communities Eden Valley and Watkins. Ranging from milk cans to cream separators and numerous mercantile items, it is certainly a display worthy of visiting.

The Mike Arends gas engine display shed is a vivid glimpse in to the wide variety of gas engines that once existed in daily life and how they were used. A must-see display.

Probably the most significant display of growing tobacco in Minnesota and the upper Midwest, this display shows how tobacco was grown and raised in Meeker County.

What started as a 4-H research project for Laura (Shoutz) Niece in 2014, has grown into one of the most popular displays on our grounds. Dan Ruprecht of Eden Valley presents the rich history of tobacco growing in Meeker County. As a member of a tobacco growing family, Dan brings a plethora of knowledge and passion to this ever-growing display. 

​From planting to harvest, displaying planters to spearing machines, to baling and the final shipping- no other display in the Upper Midwest tells the story of tobacco like this unique exhibition.

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This shed was owned by Roger and Jeanetta Carlson of Litchfield who were lifetime members of FCT, both of whom made significant impacts on the club and the showgrounds.

Purchased from the Carlson Family Trustees in 2025, this building will now serve as the decicated display space for annual feature tractor exhibitors. 

A "portico" is being added as of 2026 to extend display space. A memorial bench for Roger & Jennetta is also in the works provided by their family.

The Jakobitz Family along with several helpers put together a cheap and quick food stand serving cinnamon-sugar fry bread and several flavors of sno-cones.

​The best sweet treat deal on the grounds!

An old time blacksmith shop complete with forge and anvil. This display shows how old time blacksmiths forged & repaired old time horse drawn equipment.

A portion of the original depot built in Litchfield in 1869/1870, this structure is a reflection of what the original depot would have been prior to 1900. It has a passenger waiting room, the depot agent’s office- which includes a vintage telegraph and telephone system- as well as a freight area.

​The Frank & Rita Berg Family have been the driving force of the reconstruction along with a wide variety of volunteers. As a bonus in the north end of the structure is Richard Dollerschell’s vision of what Forest City would have been if the RR had come through Forest City. Newly added in 2024, is a walking platform around the building and is handicap accessible!

At the “top of the hill” in the middle of the grounds sits the pulling track. The antique and garden tractor pulls are both held on this track, as well as the pedal tractor pull on the tar walkway between the track and west bleachers.

​The track is also equipped with several seating options including bleachers, a few covered areas to bring chairs, and space to set up tents and lawn chairs.

This area is the heart of the grounds- a lot can be been seen from this location!

Located just between the Cropp Family display building and the tractor pull track is an oasis for those who have a quenchable thirst for ‘Barley’ pop. A must stop for those who have a certain thirst.

Located just west of the Tractor Pull Track and south of the Cropp Building is a small train engine with cars sized for children. This attraction is provided by the Jakobitz family of the Hector area.

​A treat for the small ones they will long remember.

This small patch ofsunflowers has been an experiment for FCT's crop crew. Original intentions were to have a sunflower maze as a new activity for showgoers. However, timing and weather have prevented success in this endevor. 

In 2025, a perfectly timed bloom and decent weather allowed for a trail to be cut through the field for viewing pleasure and photo oportunities- of which many exhibitors took advantage of during the show.

Future plans for the sunflower field include a dedicated route of a "people-mover" to bring show-gowers out to the field. A maze or just walking trail in the field will vary year to year based on blooms and ground conditions.

This building is used to store threshing machines and other farm equipment and supplies. Just to the west of this shed are also the windmill and small corn crib.

The windmill is a structure that recalls a bygone era when ‘wind power’ was used to provide water for both livestock and farmsteads. The corncrib is a reminder of what corn yields were in the 1920’s.

The actual threshing machines or separators are really what the threshing show is all about. This demonstrates how small grain was processed from a seed on a strand of straw into a usable grain that could be processed into flour. Corn binders, choppers and shellers are also at work in this general area. This area probably shows the most complete process of grain harvesting that existed in the first half of the twentieth century.