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Bowman Family

Bowman Family is a Virginia historical marker in Shenandoah County, dedicated 2020.

Shenandoah County · dedicated 2020 · Fort Bowman Road near intersection with US 11

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To the east is Fort Bowman, built ca. 1771 for the family of George and Mary (Hite) Bowman. The house exemplifies the merging of German and English architectural styles in the Shenandoah Valley. The Bowmans, with others of German and Scots-Irish origin, had moved to this area from Pennsylvania in the 1730s and had become slaveowners. Their son Maj. Joseph Bowman was second in command in Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark's Vincennes Campaign during the Revolutionary War. Second- and third-generation family houses preserved nearby include Isaac and Mary Bowman's Mount Pleasant (1812), Col. George and Elizabeth Bowman's Long Meadow (1848), and Charles and Rebecca Hite's farmhouse (1850s).

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