The Wilmington Public Library of Clinton County serves the communities of Clinton County from its administrative offices and main library in Wilmington and its Clinton Massie branch in Clarksville.

In 1789, New Hampshire, anticipating the college ’ s loss of the Landaff Grant, made good on its original promise of a grant with the town of Clarksville ( in northern New Hampshire ).

Rhodes College traces its origin as a degree-granting institution to the Masonic University of Tennessee, founded in 1848 in Clarksville, Tennessee, by the Grand Masonic Lodge of Tennessee.

Clarksville is perhaps best known for its highly successful high school, River Hill.

In late April and early May 2010, due to extensive rains, the Cumberland River overflowed its banks and flooded Nashville and Clarksville.

Due to its close proximity to Clarksville, Tennessee, the War Department on March 6, 1942, designated Tennessee as the official address of the new camp.

Most of its upper course in Virginia between the City of Roanoke and Clarksville is known as the Staunton River.

The original Piggly Wiggly Store, Memphis, TennesseeAfter leaving Clarksville, Tennessee, on September 6, 1916, Saunders launched the self-service revolution in the USA by opening the first self-service Piggly Wiggly store, at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis, Tennessee, with its characteristic turnstile at the entrance.

In 1907, the town became a railway junction when an extension of the Roxburgh Branch was constructed alongside the Main South Line from its original junction at nearby Clarksville into Milton to facilitate better operations.

In 2007, Camp Quest Ohio moved to 4-H Camp Graham in Clarksville, Ohio, its current location.

Dr. Wiley Lin Hurie served as president of the university during its early days in Clarksville.

In its early days it was the largest of the six major settlements at the Falls of the Ohio River, the others being Shippingport and Louisville in Kentucky and New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville on the Indiana side.

In 1994, Wilma Rudolph Boulevard was the name given to the portion of U. S. Route 79 in Clarksville, Tennessee.

* Clarksville, Tennessee, the largest city with this name

* Clarksburg, former name of Clarksville, California

Wilma Rudolph Boulevard is the name given to the portion of U. S. Route 79 in Clarksville, Tennessee between the Interstate 24 exit 4 in Clarksville to the Red River ( Lynnwood-Tarpley ) bridge near the Kraft Street intersection.

This section of Highway 79 in Clarksville was previously called the Guthrie Highway, for nearby Guthrie, Kentucky, but in 1994, the name was changed to honor Wilma Rudolph, an olympic runner from Clarksville, who won three gold medals in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, the Summer Olympics.

Clarksville is the name of an unincorporated community in Howard County, the third wealthiest county in the United States according to the U. S. Census Bureau.

Other entities bearing his name include a coal-fired power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority near Rogersville, a railroad classification yard operated by Norfolk Southern in east Knox County, and a dormitory at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.

Over the next twenty years, Caroline Gordon ( who retained her maiden name ) and Allen Tate lived in Tate's house in Clarksville.

In June 2006, Clarksville Town Council granted the school's request to change the name of the roadway in front of the school.

Robert Penn Warren graduated from Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926.

Her family travelled regularly from segregated Clarksville, Tennessee, to Fisk University's black medical college hospital in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg.

Category: People from Clarksville, Tennessee

Clarksville was the first county seat, from 1854 to 1860, after which Butler Center became the seat.

Clarksville has the largest exposed fossil beds from the Devonian period.

Some can hear stations from Fort Campbell, Clarksville and Paducah as well.

The grant boundaries shown in 1874 maps differ from those of 1850s maps by showing a parcel of ungranted " state land " on the western edge of this grant ( and north of Dix's Grant ), and another " Dartmouth College Grant " to the west of that ( later annexed to the eastern edge of Clarksville ).

Clarksville is bordered to the north and west by Pittsburg, and to the west by one mile of waterfront on the Connecticut River ( across from the village of Beecher Falls, in Canaan, Vermont ).

Pittsburg contains the only part of New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, as that river defines the Vermont state line from Clarksville southward.

As the area declined from the loss of the furnace works, nearby Nashville and Clarksville TN offered more non-farming opportunities.

Site of the 101st Airborne Division ( Air Assault ), Fort Campbell is located approximately ten miles ( 16 km ) from downtown Clarksville, straddling the Tennessee-Kentucky state line.

The Cumberland flows downstream from Nashville, some southeast of Clarksville.

This is actually the Colgate Clock, located on the façade of the Colgate factory in Clarksville, Indiana, directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, where the majority of the film was shot.

He was the son of enslaved parents from Clarksville, Tennessee, who, after successfully purchasing their own freedom, eventually moved to Chicago, where Webster was raised.

In addition, Clarksville Middle School's Wind Ensemble attended the prestigious Midwest Clinic in 2009, being the first middle school from Maryland to perform there.

About from the main campus, the university also has the opportunity to experience the Franciscan eremitical tradition in the Allegheny Mountain foothills in western Clarksville, New York, at a community called Mount Irenaeus.

Louisville, Kentucky, and the associated Indiana communities — Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and New Albany — all owe their existence as communities to the falls, as the navigational obstacles the falls presented meant that late 18th Century and early to late 19th Century river traffic could benefit from local expertise in navigating the drop made by the river over a distance of two miles ( 3 km ).

In 1941, Sutton graduated from East Nashville High School, and returned to Clarksville to become a radio announcer.

This Clark's Grant was based from what is now Clarksville, Indiana and formed much of what would become Clark and eastern Floyd County, Indiana.

The dissident faction coalesced around the leadership of State Senate Majority Leader Riley Darnell from Clarksville in Middle Tennessee.