Woolsey Farm, Greene Co. Tennessee The old Woolsey homestead is located on the corner of Woolsey College Road  & Susong Road in the Camp Creek vicinity of Greene County. This home was built in about 1850 and was used as a boarding house during the time the Woolsey College was in operation. (More on the history of the college later). The location of the college is up the hill and behind the house. The bricks were made on the property and I was told the bricks in this old house were from the college building. At the homestead location are several buildings and another old house. It is unknown who lived in the 2nd smaller house or when it was built. (Inside old house) The old road came down through the property to the left of this building. Across where the new road now runs is the old log barn. A natural spring comes out of the ground and runs down through the property. Next to the creek are two buildings. One is currently used as a horse stall now, but when the current owners bought the property it was a "brick shed" where they made bricks to be used to build the college. The kiln was still in the shed, but was in great disrepair and apparently was disposed of at that time. Susan Kyger,  current owner, graciously allowed me to photograph the property and inside the home. It is the home of William Bonapart Woolsey and his wife, Alice Bird. William was a minister and the one who apparently started the college. William B. was the son of William & Sarah Woolsey, whose families migrated from Ulster Co. New York. Close up of the front of the house Side of the house Dining Room At one time this was the kitchen & the fireplace where they cooked Another of kitchen Living Room Stairs Bedroom As the road curves around from College Road to Susong Road you can see the house in the background where the creek continues to run through the property. Susong Road runs into Kelly Gap Road and at the "T" intersection is the location of the Price Cemetery where William Bonapart's son, David M. Woolsey & his wife, Elizabeth Price, & some of their children, Dora,  Maria, are buried. A Roscoe Woolsey is also buried here. Standing in the cemetery is the view of the Woolsey farm. County Administrator Carolyn Whitaker This site is hosted by Rootsweb Last update 22 April 2002