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CLARKSVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLARKSVILLE  , a See also:

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

Clarksville was first settled as See also:

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

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