CLARKSVILLE  , a

city and the county-seat of Montgomery county, Tennessee, U.S.A., situated in the N. part of the state, about 5o M . N.W. of Nashville, on the Cumberland river, at the mouth of the Red river . Pop . (189o) 7924; (1900) 9431, of whom 5094 were negroes; (1910 census) 8548 . It is served by the Louisville & Nashville, and the Illinois Central railways, and by passenger and freight steamboat lines on the Cumberland river . The city hall• and the public library are among the principal public buildings, and the city is the seat of the Tennessee Odd Fellows' home, and of the South-Western Presbyterian University, founded in 1875 . Clarksville lies in the centre of the dark tobacco belt—commonly known as the " Black Patch "—and is an important tobacco market, with an annual trade in that staple of about $4,000,000, most of the product being exported to France, Italy, Austria and Spain . The city is situated in a region well adapted for the growing of wheat, Indian corn, and vegetables, and for the raising of live-stock; and Clarksville is a shipping point for the lumber—chiefly oak, poplar and birch—and the iron-ore of the surrounding country, a branch of the Louisville . & Nashville railway extending into the iron district . The city's principal manufactures are flour and grist mill products, chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff, furniture, lumber, iron, and pearl buttons . The value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,210,112, being 32 % greater than in 1900 . The municipality owns its water-works .

Clarksville was first settled as

early as 1780, was named in honour of General George Rogers Clark, and was chartered as a city in 185o .