The Bowen Plantation house.
The fort at Mansker's Station, complete with re-enactors, period food and Oxen poop.
A look through the back window of the Bowen home at night. The light is a 1787 vintage 4-candle lantern.
A Christmas sing-along at the Bowen home.
This guy had a voice!
The Bowen house master bedroom.
Another of the master bedroom.
Rear view of the Bowen house at night.
Another of the Bowen house back porch at night.
They told me that the lantern was the real thing from the 1700's.
A Mansker and her Fort. Marsha is Kasper Mansker's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, niece!! Really!!
"Ewwwwwwwwwww, I have ANCESTORS!" And they built this fort!
No 'spreading chestnut tree,' but this is where the village smithie worked.
The oxyard, downwind of the fort.
The back of the fort at night.
Another of the back of the fort.
Artsy fence picture.
The side of the fort. It really isn't that big... only 6 log buildings and a couple covered areas for the blacksmith and wood storage.
It wasn't too cold this night, but that fire still felt good!
Each building in the fort had a rock fireplace, but a log chimney from about 8 feet above the ground.
A scarecrow near the fort. Next year, the preservation society will be tilling the earth with oxen and planting crops, just like Kasper did in the 1870's.
The Bowen house at night.
