Kim Blanton

Goodlettsville Video

View a short video that I created for people considering a move to this beautiful part of Tennessee:

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Gallatin, TN (2:07 duration)

Goodlettsville is a city in Davidson and Sumner counties and was incorporated as a city in 1958.

Explored and settled just a few short years after our nation declared its independence, the city of Goodlettsville has a rich historical heritage.

The town, situated in Davidson and Sumner counties, originated as Mansker’s Station, a fort established in 1780 by Kasper Mansker, a Virginia longhunter who first explored the area in 1772.

The establishment of Mansker Fort coincided with the founding of Fort Nashborough, later known as Nashville, by John Robertson. Mansker and Robertson scouted the sites in 1779.

Today Goodlettsville’s rich heritage can be enjoyed in such places as the city’s Frontier Life Center, or on Main Street where buildings from the city’s past house antique stores and specialty shops.

At the Frontier Life Center, guests enjoy 18th Century Tennessee, guided by re-enactors through reconstructed Mansker’s Station, considered to be one of the most historically-accurate in the nation, and the Bowen Plantation House, the region’s earliest brick structure, outfitted in its simple, 1790’s finery.