Kasper Mansker or Casper Mansker also, spelled Mäintzger and Minsker (c. 1750–1820) was a longhunter and one of Middle Tennessee's first European explorers...
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Mansker's Station, also called Mansker's Fort was a station along Avery's Trace in Middle Tennessee. It was built by Kasper Mansker. Kasper Mansker was...
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Mall shopping center. Long hunter and early Middle Tennessee settler Kasper Mansker was reportedly born on an immigrant ship bound for the American colonies...
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county that bears his name in 1775 while on a hunting expedition with Kasper Mansker. In 1784, Montgomery purchased the land at the confluence of the Cumberland...
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"Kasper Mansker: Cumberland Frontiersman." Tennessee Historical Quarterly Vol. 30, No. 2, (1971): pp. 154–77. https://mansker.org/history/12-kasper-mansker-cumberland-...
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trading posts in the region. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a salt lick (where modern Goodlettsville would...
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returned to the Cumberland valley in 1769, along with fellow hunters Kasper Mansker, Isaac and Abraham Bledsoe, Joseph Drake, and Robert Crockett. Although...
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1771 and 1775, John Montgomery, the namesake of the county, along with Kasper Mansker, visited the area while on a hunting expedition. In 1771, James Robertson...
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formed in 1780, the Cumberland Association was dormant until 1783. Kasper Mansker, Cumberland Frontiersman, by Walter Durham, Tennessee Historical Quarterly...
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extensively in the Upper Cumberland region. In 1769, an expedition led by Kasper Mansker spent several months in the Upper Cumberland area, eventually sending...
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Loggins Robert Lucas Edward Lucas John Luney Peter Luny James Lynn Kasper Mansker Amb's [Ambrose] Mauldin Morton Mauldin William M McMurray John Montgomery...
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hunting expedition led by Kasper Mansker camped in the Oak Hill area, near modern Livingston. While at Oak Hill, a member of Mansker's expedition named Robert...
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County, Tennessee shows, a bill of sale is exchanged from Hugh McGary to Kasper Mansker for an African-American male slave. In 1797, Hugh McGary and his son...
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long hunters were active in the Upper Cumberland region, among them Kasper Mansker and Isaac Bledsoe (c. 1735–1794). At one point the expedition established...
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(1784), and bears the namesake of Kasper/Casper Mansker, longhunter and pioneer of Kentucky and Tennessee. Mansker's Station was located due south near...
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