Manskers Station

Mansker’s Station is an authentic reproduction of Kasper Mansker’s original frontier fort. In fact, it is one of the most accurate representations of a frontier fort in North America. On the west side of Mansker’s Creek, Kasper and his Immortal Seventy built their first defensive station. The inhabitants left during the winter of 1780–1781 because of increasing attacks from Creek and Chickamauga Indians. That 1779 station stood only for one year before being abandoned and burned to the ground. Yet, in 1783, Kasper Mansker returned and built a second station on the east bank of Mansker’s Creek, roughly one mile from Mansker’s 1779 Station. Almost two hundred years later, local historians, craftsmen, and community members petitioned Goodlettsville to build a replica of Mansker’s Station in Moss Wright Park. Goodlettsville opened Mansker’s Station in 1988. Research historians and reenactors even used eighteenth-century tools to build Mansker’s Station. Paid admission includes a guided tour with entry to both the Bowen House and Mansker's Station.