Bowman's Castle
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Bowman's Castle, also known as Nemacolin Castle, was built in the 1850s by Jacob Bowman in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in Fayette County. The Castle is one of a several large buildings of the 1850s still standing in western Pennsylvania, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The only people to live in the house itself was the Bowman family. Three generations lived there, with the first generation revolving around Jacob Bowman. He and his wife started the first part of the structure some time around 1805-1808 with a trading post and one room above.[1]
However, they soon found that they needed more room seeing that their family was growing. They had several children. When Jacob died in 1847, he left the house to his son Nelson. Nelson married late in his life and had 6 children. Only two of the children survived until adulthood. When Nelson died in 1892, he left the house to Charles Bowman who lived there until his death with his wife Lelia. After Lelia died in 1959, her wish was that the house become a museum. The house is now maintained as a museum by the Brownsville Historical Society.
