Casper Mansker 1746-1820

He kept a long soldier's record. In 1783 he surveyed land North Carolina planned to grant its Revolutionary War veterans. Around 1787 the Sumner County militia made him major, and he sat on the county's first grand jury. Governor William Blount named him lieutenant colonel in 1790. He later joined the 1794 expedition against the Chickamauga Cherokee towns, and in the War of 1812 he served in a Tennessee mounted volunteer regiment that fought at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

What the plaque says

Casper Mansker 1746-1820 Two blocks west is the grave of this renowned frontiersman and Goodlettsville's first citizen. Coming first to the Cumberland Settlements in 1770, he returned in 1780 and built his fort one-half mile north on Mansker's creek. He repeatedly fought marauding Indians to protect the first white settlers of this region and was made colonel in the frontier militia. He lived the remainder of his life at his fort which was called Mansker's Station.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 9.2 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Tennessee State Capitol — 11 mi
  William Strickland's Greek Revival capitol on Nashville's Capitol Hill, finished in 1859 and built from the bottom up with the labor of enslaved men.
• Ryman Auditorium — 12 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 12 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.

More markers nearby

• Mansker's Station — steps away
• Goodlettsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church — steps away
• Robert Cartwright — 0.4 mi
• First Long Hunters — 1.3 mi