While the Shields Ethridge Heritage Farm is open to visitors who want to drop by or for scheduled tours, the Mule Day Celebration give visitors a chance to see the property alive with people plowing, working in the blacksmith shop, driving wagons, making soap, quilting, making baskets and milling corn. There are also tractors and antique cars on display as well as home movies playing from the 1930s and 40s All of the buildings in the complex are open, including the cotton gin, the teacher's house, and the Bachelor's Academy schoolhouse.
The Farm has been in the same family for over 200 years and and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Georgia Centennial Farm. The property consists of the main house (dating back to the late 1860s) and a farm complex that was built in 1909 and is preserved today in much of its original state.
