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FRIENDS OF HISTORIC WOOLSEY

Friends of Historic Woolsey is a Georgia nonprofit organization founded in 2022 by descendants of Dr. Isaac Gray Woolsey and community members who recognized the need for an advocacy organization to protect places of historic and cultural significance. Our organization's mission is to restore, preserve, protect, and where possible, rehabilitate and revitalize historic buildings, sites, and landscapes that contribute to the cultural heritage in and around Woolsey, Georgia.

WOOLSEY, GEORGIA

Friends of Historic Woolsey's goal is to preserve, honor, and learn from Woolsey’s past to benefit future generations. Named in honor of Dr. I. G. Woolsey, a minister, doctor, farmer, landowner, and philanthropist, Woolsey, originally called Woolseyville, was a thriving town in its heyday. The town had a train depot, school, bank, post office, jail, millinery, blacksmith shop, cotton gin, peach packing plant, doctor’s office, lumber business, general store, and church. Trains from the Atlanta-Hawkinsville Railroad Company carried cotton, peaches, and other crops north to Atlanta. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would frequently stop in Woolsey on his train rides to Warm Springs.