16 Facts About Clarksville Tennessee

When Spanish explorers first visited Clarksville Tennessee, led by Hernando de Soto in 1539-43, it was inhabited by tribes of Muscogee and Yuchi people.

Clarksville Tennessee identified Red Paint Hill, a rock bluff at the confluence of the Cumberland and Red Rivers, as a navigational landmark.

In 1772, Robertson and the pioneers who had settled in northeast Clarksville Tennessee met at Sycamore Shoals to establish an independent regional government known as the Watauga Association.

All of present-day Clarksville Tennessee was once recognized as Washington County, North Carolina.

Clarksville Tennessee was designated as a town to be settled in part by soldiers from the disbanded Continental Army that served under General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.

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Since the area of Clarksville Tennessee had been surveyed and sectioned into plots, it was identified as a territory deemed ready for settlement.

Development and culture of Clarksville Tennessee has had an ongoing interdependence between the citizens of Clarksville Tennessee and the military.

Clarksville Tennessee women saw a need for banking independent of their husbands and fathers who were fighting.

Since 1980, the population of Clarksville Tennessee has more than doubled, in part because of annexation, as the city acquired communities such as New Providence and Saint Bethlehem.

Clarksville Tennessee has since recovered, and has rebuilt much of the damage.

Clarksville Tennessee is located on the northwest edge of the Highland Rim, which surrounds the Nashville Basin, and is 45 miles northwest of Nashville.

In 1907, Clarksville was among several cities in Tennessee that gained legislative approval to adopt a board of commission form of government, with commissioners elected by at-large voting.

Clarksville Tennessee changed its government system, and in the 21st century has a 12-member city council elected from single-member districts, which has increased the range of representation.

Clarksville Tennessee is served commercially by Nashville International Airport but has a small airport, Outlaw Field, located 10 miles north of downtown.

Clarksville Tennessee Transit has 11 bus routes, and the service operates Mondays-Saturdays.

Clarksville Tennessee's nicknames have included The Queen City, Queen of the Cumberland, and Gateway to the New South.