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Saturday, January 29, 2022

Bowen-Campbell House - Goodlettsville, TN

Bowen-Campbell House - Goodlettsville, TN

According to Wikipedia:

The Bowen-Campbell House, also known as the Bowen Plantation House, is a two-story, Federal style, brick house located in Goodlettsville, Sumner County, Tennessee.

The house was built from 1787 to 1788 by Captain William Bowen, a veteran of Lord Dunmore's War of 1774, the French and Indian War of 1754 to 1763, and the American Revolutionary War who brought his family to the area in 1785. His son, William Russell Bowen, later lived in the house. His grandson, Brigadier General William Bowen Campbell who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1851 to 1853 and U.S. Congressman from Tennessee from 1837 to 1843, was born in the house in 1807.

It is the oldest brick house in Middle Tennessee. The bricks were imported from Lexington, Kentucky. The original plantation area around the house is now the home of Moss-Wright Park. The Bowen-Campbell House Association as well as the Tennessee Historical Commission, restored the house in 1976. In 1977, the structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Archaeologists found the family cemetery on the property in 1995 and restored it in 1996. It is open for tours as part of Historic Mansker's Station.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Burial place of Casper Mansker

Burial place of Casper Mansker

Mansker settled an area near Goodlettsville in 1780, an area known as Mansker's Station. His body was moved in front of Goodlettsville's Community Center in 1956.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Atomic Cleaners neon sign - Goodlettsville, TN

Atomic Cleaners

Unfortunately, it is gone now, but this rusty neon sign used to be in Goodlettsville on highway U.S. 41/31W.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Old Stonebridge - Goodlettsville, TN

Old Stonebridge - Goodlettsville, TN

This dual arch stone bridge crosses Mansker's Creek in Goodlettsville, TN, just north of Nashville. It was part of the stagecoach road that connected Nashville to Louisville. I'm not sure when the bridge was built (somewhere between 1837-49), but the stagecoach line became obsolete when the railroad was completed in 1859, so it's older than that. Many parts of that old road are now US Highway 31W, and today's 31W (Dickerson Pk.) runs a few feet from this bridge. This bridge is also on the National Register of Historic Places.