Mansker's Station

Kasper Mansker was born around 1750 aboard the immigrant ship Christian during its Atlantic crossing. He first hunted along the Cumberland in 1769, when his party was robbed of supplies by a small group of Native people, and in 1772 he found the salt licks later called Mansker's Lick. He joined James Robertson and John Donelson's party in 1779, then built his own fort in 1780, separate from Nashville's. He signed the Cumberland Compact and was wounded in a Native attack in 1781. He died in 1820 and now lies in Peay Park in Goodlettsville.

What the plaque says

Mansker's Station Here, near Mansker's Lick, Casper Mansker established a station of the Cumberland Settlements in 1780. The road connecting with Nashboro was built in 1781. John Donelson and his family moved here after abandoning his Clover Bottom Station, following the 1780 massacre. A great game trail ran northeast from the Lick.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 9.3 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

• Goodlettsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church — steps away
• Robert Cartwright — 0.5 mi
• First Long Hunters — 1.4 mi
• Alexander Wilson — 1.6 mi