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Benson is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States, near the intersection of Interstates 95 and 40. Benson celebrates Mule Days on the fourth Saturday of September, a festival that attracts more than 60,000 people each year. In 2010, the population was 3,311, up from 2,923 in 2000.

The town of Benson, which derives its publish from upfront settler Alfred Monroe (“Mim”) Benson, owes much of its historical progress to the railroad extraction which passed through the gift location in town in 1886 on its route amid Fayetteville and Contentnea. More information upon the archives of Benson and the surrounding communities may be found at the further Benson Museum of Local History located at 102 W. Main Street, next to the Mary Duncan Library.

Mr. Benson’s purchase of a 402-acre (1.63 km) tract along the Smithfield-Fayetteville Road in 1874 initiated the agreement of the area now known as Benson. During the 1880s Benson sold portions of his indigenous tract to incoming settlers, many of whom were farmers. Benson was incorporated in 1887 and soon attracted a number of entrepreneurs wishing to accept advantage of this further town along an important transportation route.