Bigger and Better every year!
19th Annual GREAT PUMPKIN FESTIVAL and WEIGH-OFF
Allardt, Tennessee
set for Saturday, Oct. 2, through Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010
Official Weights and Measurements for World Record Consideration

GPC Weigh-off Site


News Release:
Vendor Brochures mailed.
Volunteers needed.
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2010 Auto Show

2010 Pumpkin Run

Events Summary

2009 Photos

NEW rules for 2010
Rules and Regs 
for Big Pumpkin 
Competition

2009 Sponsors

 Where is Allardt, Tennessee? (MAP)

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 Clyde and Zelia Stephens Memorial Car Show

Questions: Call Allardt City Hall

931-879-7125

Crafts and Food Vendors 
News release

Pumpkin Roll Recipe

"Barney" and "Gomer" entertained the crowds with Mayberry Memories at the 2005 and 2006 festivals.

A big parade down the center of Allardt is an annual high point of the festival.

Photos from previous years

New Sergeant York Biography. Available now. Download. www.sgt-york.com

Murf's Auto Show page

photo by Sandra Turner  New Record Pumpkin for the Allardt Weigh-off Oct. 3, 2009 First Place winner - John VanHook, Somerset, KY - 1266.10 lbs. photo by Bill Bowden, Fentress Courier New Record Watermelon for the Allardt Weigh-off Oct. 3, 2009 First Place - Chris Kent, Sevierville, TN - 259.2 lbs. photo by Bill Bowden, Fentress Courier Green Squash First Place Winner Sullivan Harris, Allardt, TN - 282.4 lbs.  Pumpkins First place - John VanHook, Somerset, KY -- 1266.1 lbs. (Allardt weigh-off record) Second place - James VanHook, Somerset, KY - 1104.1 lbs. Third place - George Kopsell, Maryville, TN - 950.8 lbs. Fourth place - Jimmy Sowers, Stanford, KY - 836.6 lbs. Fifth place - Jack Faulkner, Duff, TN - 819.5 lbs. Watermelons First place - Chris Kent, Sevierville, TN - 259.2 lbs. Second place - Janet Kent, Sevierville, TN - 234.2 lbs. Third place - Freddie Burcham, Ashland City, TN - 221.4 lbs. Green Squash First Place - Sullivan Harris, Allardt, TN - 282.4 Second Place - Madison Delk, Allardt, TN - 224.4 Third Place - Dillion Delk, Allardt, TN - 170.9 Prettiest Pumpkin Winner Riley Faulkner, age 6, Duff, TN 2009 Pumpkin Festival Queen and King Teresa and Kenny Williams

2008 Winners

2007 Winners

2006 Winners

2005 Winners

2004 Winners

2003 and previous winners

Our thanks to these 2009 Allardt Great Pumpkin Festival Event Sponsors and Contributors A-Team Heating and Cooling, Inc. Allardt Land Company Burden Drug Center Clarkrange Drug Center Community Bank of the Cumberlands Dilip Joshi, M.D. Fentress County Farm Bureau Fentress County Flowers & Gifts Fentress Courier Fentress Farmers Co-op Congressman Lincoln Davis McDonalds Potters' Shopping Center Progressive Savings Bank Union Bank ~ Special thanks to the Fentress County Highway Department and to the City of Jamestown