Clark County Fairgrounds — Ruth Ham grew up near Fargher Lake, but even she learned things about the area while researching it with her fellow Fargher Lake Grange members for an exhibit at the Clark County Fair. She didn’t know there used to be three distilleries in the area producing mint and dill oil. Ham was one of about 15 Grange members who worked on the exhibit, which won the Sweepstakes Award in the Grange category of the Daily Agricultural and Educational Display Awards and the Agriculture and Education Award in the Display Awards category. Their display showed farming in the area from 1926 through present. Mint was a major crop grown from 1926 until the 1970s, along with onions, dill, daffodils and asparagus, Ham said. She added that blueberries are the only crop currently grown at Fargher Lake, which was once called Lakeview. Despite its name, there was never a lake there, she said. There was a marsh, which was drained in 1918 and 1921. Back in the 1940s, a nearby store sold postcards from Fargher Lake with a picture of a lake on it, Ham said.
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