Captain William Bowen built the Bowen-Campbell House, the oldest brick home in Middle Tennessee, on land he earned through military service in the Revolutionary War. The nation these settlers were ostensibly a part of had not yet won the war that made it possible. The Walk BetweenThe path from the fort to the Bowen-Campbell House follows the same line that horse-drawn carriages traveled for generations. The Brick HouseCaptain Bowen arrived on the Cumberland frontier in the mid-1780s with his wife Mary and four young children. Mansker’s Station and the Bowen-Campbell House are forty-five minutes from Clarksville.