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Car show, antique festival and fireworks on tap this weekend in Loudonville

Jim Brewer
Ashland Times Gazette
Judges Karen Lynch, John Gilbert and Phil Burns examine a 1937 Humbert Limo during the Loudonville annual car show and Antique Festival sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce in downtown Loudonville  in 2021. The 2022 car show will take place on Saturday, July 2.

A long Fourth of July weekend is coming up, so plan on thousands of visitors coming to Mohican Country.

Three major special events will greet them, the two-day Antique Festival in Loudonville’s Central Park on Friday and Saturday, July 1 and 2; the Loudonville Car Show, one of the most renown in Ohio, Saturday; and the traditional Loudonville Fireworks Show, with fireworks shooting off from Riverside Park at dusk Monday, July 4.

All three events are sponsored by the Loudonville Chamber of Commerce.

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The Car Show, now in its 21st year, is rated No. 1 in Top Ten Destination Car Shows by Crusin’ Times Magazine, the journal of Ohio Car Shows. Typically, 500 or more cars participate in the show, parked on Main Street and the side Water, Brentwood, Market and Wood streets.

The event will be complimented by downtown shopping and dining available at local restaurants and shops, as well as food trucks and other vendors set up in Central Park.

These are mixed in with antique vendors who arrived Friday and will be selling their wares both Friday and Saturday, the antique festival portion of the festivities. Most of the food vendors also will set up for Friday’s activity.

The sponsoring Chamber decided to hold the traditional Loudonville Fireworks Show on the Fourth of July, regardless of what day of the week in which that falls.

Fireworks are funded by local donations and a couple of sustaining revenue sources. From the central Riverside Park launching site, the fireworks can be seen in all parts of the village and, in some directions where hills don’t eclipse them, for miles out of town.

In fact, residents of hilltop homes in Loudonville report the ability to see fireworks shows in Ashland, Wooster and Charles Mill Lake simultaneously.