In the 20th century, mules pulled the city’s garbage wagons during the day and then pulled floats at night. Each mule had a name and a personality, and mules almost always worked as a team.

8 a.m. - Maury Regional Mule Kick 5K Race 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. - Mule Day Craft Fair 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. - Live Music at Main Stage 11 a.m. - Mule Day Parade - Downtown Columbia 11 a.m. - Mule Pulling ...

Matched mules Striker and Sierra pull a four-wheel passenger wagon driven by Wendy Bailey, who is seated next to her swamper, ...

However, as the name suggests, only mules can pull the wagons in the Big Mule event, and they must pull the wagon up and down a hill before racing to the finish line, reaching speeds of at least ...

A big part of Mule Day's revival in 1974 was a community of supporters, from organizers to the many who hitch up their wagons each year to travel 50-miles by wagon train throughout Maury County to ...

Bobby Taylor gives Mule Day visitors a ride on his covered wagon as rain falls over the Maury County Park in Columbia, Tenn., on Friday, April 6, 2018.

For the Bama Mule Skinners and other chuckwagon racing teams, the art of the race is distilled into something much more simple and pure, a mad dash in an 80-pound wagon led by two mules, and it's ...

In addition to the tax, you had to care for them. In 1881, it cost, in today’s dollars, $24 a week or $60 a month to have J.C. Eams Stable take care of your mule. It took four mules pulling a wagon to ...

From the Archives heads to Palomar Mountain for a photo of mules pulling wagons up Trujillo Road, or South Slide, in 1890. Today the road is Highway S6, the South Grade Road.The San Diego Union-Tri… ...

Mule Man Koy Flowers and his wife Carolyn Flowers lead the Mule Day Wagon Train into the Maury County Park in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday, March 30, 2022.

A little while later, a pair of mules pulling a wagon came clop, clop clopping down the shoulder of U.S. 30. Joe and Marcyne Blythe had been making Nebraska headlines since mid-May, but Guthard ...