Getting a Kick at the Mule Museum
The Mule Museum in Spring Hill, Tenn., is housed in two salvaged barns. One barn is made of American chestnut, a species wiped out by blight in the 1930s. The museum had its grand opening during the 2001 Mule Day Celebration.
"It’s getting so you can’t find this old farm equipment anymore," says Elmer Rummage about the collection housed at the Mule Museum on Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill, Tenn.
The museum across from the Saturn plant houses all types of harnesses, old leather saddles, ploughs and equipment such as manure spreaders and tobacco setters.
"Anything that has to do with horses or mules," says Rummage, who serves as museum president. Crowds of schoolchildren as well as people from places as far away as California, Texas and even Scotland have visited so far.
"We opened April 1, 2001, and on that day 300 people showed up," Rummage says. "Of course, most of those were here for our Mule Day festivities." |
