* Dederick Lee, who led Clarksville to back to back championships in the Class 4A boys state basketball title last year ( 2011 ) and this year ( 2012 ), has orally committed to play for coach Mike Anderson and the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.

Chief Wiggum and his crew subsequently catch the boys in the basement, and call their parents and says they will take " The Last Train to Clarksville ," then Lou corrects Wiggum and says " That's The Monkees Chief.

In November 2010 NPR aired a story about racism in Clarksville that discussed the controversial arrest of the high school basketball coach and other family members during Thanksgiving dinner in 2007.

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

Born in Waukegan, Illinois, Marion attended high school in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Marion was born in Waukegan, Illinois and played high school basketball in Clarksville, Tennessee at Clarksville High School, where he was a teammate of future NBA player Trenton Hassell of the New Jersey Nets.

Plans to construct a northern loop of Tenn-840 north of Nashville and past Dickson, Clarksville, Springfield, and Gallatin were put on hold since the Tennessee General Assembly ordered the Department of Transportation to discontinue further studies and planning of that highway because of the current state budget problems and the quite high costs of major highway construction in that area.

Born and raised in Todd County, Kentucky at her family's plantation home known as " Woodstock ," Caroline Gordon received a high level of education at her father's Clarksville Classical School for Boys in neighboring Montgomery County, Tennessee.

Our Lady of Providence Junior-Senior High School is a coed Catholic high school in Clarksville, Indiana, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis.

Bill Hankins of The Paris Daily News was first to write an article about the arrest of Clarksville High School basketball coach, Vergil Richardson, in December 2007 and continued to follow the story closely for years.

In 2007 former Clarksville High School basketball star and coach of the team at the time, Vergil Richardson, was at Thanksgiving dinner with five other family members when police stormed the family home arresting Vergil and five of his family members.

Bill Hankins of The Paris Daily News was first to write an article about the arrest of Clarksville High School basketball coach, Vergil Richardson, in December 2007 and continued to follow the story closely for years.

In 2007 former Clarksville High School basketball star and coach of the team at the time, Vergil Richardson, was at Thanksgiving dinner with five other family members when police stormed the family home arresting Vergil and five of his family members.

Following post-games European tour by the American team Rudolph returned home to Clarksville.

In the early 1980s, the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area was established at Clarksville, Indiana.

In 1994, 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 was renamed to honor Wilma Rudolph.

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

The county was named for John Montgomery, a settler who founded the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, in Montgomery County.

In 1858, the first courthouse was completed in Clarksville.

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

In 1831 the county seat was located what is the current day Clarksville, Texas.

* Clarksville resident Mrs. Isobella Klein was the first woman lawyer to try a case in the state of Arkansas back in 1918.

* Clarksville was the birthplace of famous Old West outlaw Bill Doolin.

Clarksville was struck by an EF3 tornado on May 25, 2011.

The outcropping of white rock marked the entry into El Dorado County, and Clarksville was the first sizable settlement over the hill.

Another town in Illinois already had been named Clarksville ( without the " e ") so when the new town's post office was established on February 7, 1868, it was called Amicus.

One member was selected by the Floyd County Commissioners, one by the Clark County Commissioners, and one by residents of Clarksville.

With almost all of the old town destroyed, Clarksville was rebuilt with a new modern city plan.

* Frank Kimmel, a NASCAR driver, was born and lives in Clarksville.

Clarksville was incorporated in 1853, but known as Dartmouth College Grant until 1872.

One of the other contemporaneous " Dartmouth " grants was to the north of Dixville but was annexed as the eastern end of Clarksville.

A sixth elementary school, Clarksville, was closed indefinitely at the end of the 2010-2011 school year.

The Town of Clarksville was founded in 1835, taking away part of the Town of Cuba.

* Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee

Ashland City is centered around the junction of Tennessee State Route 12, which connects the city with Nashville to the south and Clarksville to the northwest, and Tennessee State Route 49, which connects the city to Springfield and Kentucky to the northeast and Charlotte to the west.

Charlotte is centered around the junction of Tennessee State Route 49, which connects Charlotte with Ashland City and Kentucky to the northeast and upper West Tennessee to the northwest, and State Route 48, which connects the town to Dickson and U. S. Route 70 to the southwest and Clarksville to the north.

Clarksville is the home of Austin Peay State University ; The Leaf-Chronicle, the oldest newspaper in Tennessee ; and neighbor to the Fort Campbell, United States Army base.

In 1925, president Charles Diehl led the move to the present campus in Memphis, Tennessee ( the Clarksville campus would later become Austin Peay State University ).

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.

Austin Peay State University () is a four-year public university located in Clarksville, Tennessee, and operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Other prominent universities are Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, the University of the South in Sewanee, Cumberland University in Lebanon, and Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, which is the state's second largest institution of higher learning, just behind the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Places named for Clark include counties in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky ( home to George Rogers Clark High School ), Ohio ( home to Clark State Community College ), and Virginia, and communities in West Virginia ( Clarksburg ), Indiana ( Clarksville ), and Tennessee ( also Clarksville ).

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

He attended several colleges, including the former Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee ( the predecessor institution to the current Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee ; the campus is the current setting of Austin Peay State University ), Central University in Richmond, Kentucky ( now merged with Centre College in Danville, Kentucky ), and Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Dunbar Cave State Park is a 110 acre ( 450, 000 m² ) park in Clarksville, Tennessee, situated around Dunbar Cave.

* Austin Peay State University, a public university in Clarksville, Tennessee

** Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, Library Science.

Head is a 1965 graduate of Cumberland College in Lebanon, Tennessee with an associate's degree, and a 1967 graduate of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

He was succeeded by Dr. Sherry L. Hoppe, who served in the position ( initially on an interim basis ) until 2000, when she became interim president of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ( explorer ) | William Clark meeting at the falls of the Ohio River ; statue at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana ( across from Louisville, Kentucky | Louisville )

Prominent among these locations include the Filson, Portland Museum, Historic Locust Grove, Falls of the Ohio State Park interpretive center ( Clarksville, Indiana ), Howard Steamboat Museum ( Jeffersonville, Indiana ), Carnegie Center for Art & History ( New Albany, Indiana ), and the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History ( Frankfort ).

Iowa State University ’ s original telescope and observatory, located northwest of Ames, was donated by the family of Milo Mather of Clarksville, Iowa, following his death in 1960.

Hassell graduated from Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1997 and from Austin Peay State University in 2001 with a degree in health and human performance.