Historic Sites - Mansker's Station & Bowen-Campbell House
19 Mansker's Station & Bowen-Campbell House
- The Bowen-Campbell House.
These adjoining sites illustrate the early phase of Middle Tennessee exploration and settlement. Mansker’s Station is the reconstructed 1779 frontier fort established by long hunter and explorer Kaspar Mansker. The forted station is a living history museum presenting scenes of pioneer life in the early Cumberland River settlements. William Bowen, Revolutionary War veteran and Indian fighter, brought his family here in 1785. Shortly afterwards, he built the brick house that still stands today, a two-story structure in the Federal style and one of the earliest examples of brick hall-and-parlor construction in Tennessee. The house is furnished in the fashion of the 1790s, and interpreters dressed in period-style clothing guide visitors. The plantation grew around Bowen’s original 640-acre grant to encompass eventually 4,000 acres. William Bowen Campbell, Mexican War leader, congressman, and governor of Tennessee from 1851 to 1853, was born here in 1807. The house was restored and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Mansker's Station Web Site & Bowen-Campbell House Web Site
Moss-Wright Park,
Caldwell Road,
Goodlettsville, TN 37072
(615) 859-3678 or 859-0766
