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Ramsey House (Knox County, Tennessee)
The Ramsey House is a two-story stone house in Knox County, Tennessee, United States. Also known as Swan Pond, the house was constructed circa 1797 by English architect Thomas Hope for Colonel Francis Alexander Ramsey (1764–1820), whose family operated a plantation at the site until the U.S. Civil War.〔Lisa Oakley, (Ramsey House ). ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2009. Retrieved: 11 February 2013.〕 In 1969, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and its role in the region's early 19th-century history.
Francis Alexander Ramsey arrived in what is now Greene County in 1783, and shortly thereafter made a surveying trip down the Holston River, where he first identified the future site of the Ramsey House. Throughout the 1780s, he served as an official of the fledgling State of Franklin, and later served in various capacities in the governments of the Southwest Territory and the State of Tennessee.〔Elizabeth Bowman Scaggs, "Swan Pond: Francis Alexander Ramsey's Stone House, a Tennessee State Shrine." ''East Tennessee Historical Society Publications'', Vol. 27 (1955), pp. 9-18.〕 Ramsey's children included early Knoxville mayor, W. B. A. Ramsey, and early Tennessee historian and businessman, J. G. M. Ramsey, both of whom occupied the Ramsey House at various times. Due to their Confederate sympathies, the Ramseys fled Knoxville when the Union Army occupied the city during the Civil War,〔Lisa Oakley, (James Gettys McGready Ramsey ). ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2009. Retrieved: 11 February 2013.〕 and the family sold the house in 1866.
The Knoxville Chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) purchased the Ramsey House in 1952,〔 and currently maintains the house and grounds as a museum.
==Location==
The Ramsey House is situated in a broad valley just over a mile east of Forks-of-the-River, where the Holston River and French Broad River join to form the Tennessee River. The property managed by APTA, which includes the Ramsey House, a visitor's center, and gardens, covers . The house and grounds are located at 2614 Thorngrove Pike, just off John Sevier Highway (TN-168).
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