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Benson Mule Days
Benson, NC · Festival
- When
- September 24–27, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Benson · Benson · NC
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Benson's four-day celebration centers on a Saturday parade that draws about 20,000 people, plus mule pulling contests and a rodeo. It has run since the 1950s and the 2026 event is its 77th year.
The history within reach
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Benson's four-day celebration centers on a Saturday parade that draws about 20,000 people, plus mule pulling contests and a rodeo.
Ava Gardner was born to tobacco sharecroppers at a crossroads called Grabtown outside Smithfield in 1922, left for a screen test at eighteen, and became one of the faces of Hollywood's golden age.
The first historically Black university in the South, begun as a theology class for freedmen months after the war ended.
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Ella Baker called student sit-in leaders to her alma mater over Easter weekend and argued them out of becoming a youth wing of Dr.
Raleigh's city schools merged with the surrounding county's to keep desegregation from collapsing as white families moved outward.