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Restoration of Frontier Woolsey Prairie Farmstead Progresses

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich
Published July 16, 2019 at 12:14 PM CDT
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The Woolsey Farmstead house, built in 1842, will be restored to its original frontier style.
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Remants of the Woolsey Farmstead smokehouse and sweet potato curing house still stand next to the original well.
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Wade Abernathy, supervisor Fayetteville Facilities Management, stands next to one of two fireplaces in the derelict farmhouse.
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Woolsey Farmstead graveyard will also be surveyed and restored.
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Woolsey Farmstead family gravestone marks where Matilda and Samuel Woolsey are buried.
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Woolsey Farmstead family cemetery unmarked headstones are scattered about.
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A rendering of the planned restoration of Woolsey Farmstead.

The city of Fayetteville remains on track with an ambitious plan to restore and preserve the Woolsey Farmstead, a pioneer western Washington County settlement adjacent to recently conserved Woolsey Wet Prairie.

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Jacqueline Froelich
Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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