March 21, 2012

The town of Sulphur Rock (Independence County) has the distinction of being the site of the nation’s last mule-drawn streetcar. Opening in the late 1880s, the transportation system ran its last route in 1926. Shown here is trolley conductor John “Skipper John” Hudleston, along with Dick the Mule, who pulled the trolley for many of those years.

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