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The farm consists of 90 acres of lush forest and pastures. There are eight outbuildings and a cottage where our daughter and grandson live. The original log house still stands (sort of) and the tobacco building and original Carolina Shed Barn are still in great shape and are used daily. The barn has mule stalls in the back, which could be converted into horse stalls when needed. Our home is a large house built in the 1950's facing onto a two-acre pond with a beautiful green pasture behind it.
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Original House
This is the original home, which is falling down on one side, but the main house portion is still standing and the wood floor is in great shape. In the near future, the Boysens will probably salvage all the logs and wood and build another small cottage or building.
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"The Stallion Barn"
We call this barn, the "stallion barn" because our stallion is housed here but it is actually a multi-purpose barn. It is so large there is room for about six more horses if needed. This is where the mares in foal come three months before foaling and they also foal here. If we have any "special needs" horses such as our foster horse "Lexie" we put them here. It has paddocks and six stalls and plenty of room for hay storage as well as a large feed room.
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Carolina Shed Barn
This is the Carolina Shed Barn—a type of barn characteristic of the Carolina countryside. It is open on one side and enclosed with a second story for hay storage. In the back are four mule stalls which have been converted to horse stalls.
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Old Grave Site
Another unique part of Thousand Welcomes Farm is the old grave site which was found deep inside the woods. It has one grave clearly marked 1870. It appears that family members were buried inside the short wall made with rocks that must have been moved from the fields. Just outside this wall, there are other less noticeable graves which were presumably those of servants. All the graves are covered with a thick mat of periwinkle, which the Boysens have learned, was planted in cemeteries in the old days to keep the cows out. They hate periwinkle. Since discovering this cemetery Burta in a complete coincidence met a woman by the last name of Strowd and it turns out that some of these graves belong to her great grandmother and her family had lost track of it.
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Tobacco Shed
This is the tobacco shed. The racks for hanging leaves are still inside. When we first bought the farm, this shed was so completely covered with wisteria, that we didn't realize it was there!
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