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19 unusual facts about Clarksville


Chuck Cleaver

Cleaver grew up in Clarksville, Ohio, the son of a factory worker who had very eclectic musical tastes ranging from Manu Dibango to Dave and Ansell Collins.

ClarkNet

It was located on the Clark family farm, located between Clarksville, Maryland and Columbia, Maryland, and initially operated out of a working cow barn.

Clarksville Airport

Clarksville/Red River County Airport (Trissell Field), serving Clarksville, Texas, United States

Clarksville, Illinois

A local telephone cooperative provides telephone service to residents of the village and the surrounding area.

Clarksville, Maryland

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

Clarksville, New Hampshire

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).

Clarksville, Texas

Euell Gibbons, author of cookbooks and foraging guides, proponent of natural diets, and television personality popular in the 1960s and 1970s

Tommie Smith set the world and Olympic records with a time of 19.83 seconds and became the 200-meter Olympic champion at the 1968 Summer Olympics, which were held in Mexico.

George Washington Lent Marr

One of the largest landowners in west Tennessee, Marr moved from Clarksville to Obion County in 1821.

Gregory Alan Thornbury

Thornbury was ordained in 1996 at the First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist) of Clarksville, Indiana.

Hall City, Florida

Rev. George F. (Franklin) Hall was born in 1864 in Clarksville, Iowa, the son of farmer, John Robert Hall.

Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South

In 2002 IWA Mid-South would once again move its base to Clarksville, Indiana following a disagreement with the landlord of the Charlestown building over rent.

John McKecknie

Born in Clarksville, Ohio, McKechnie studied for two years at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, (1880-82) before entering Princeton University (AB, 1886), which he followed with two years at the Columbia School of Mines, New York City.

Johnny Jones and the King Casuals

The band, which was originally named 'The King Kasuals', was founded in 1962 by Jimi Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States, after the two were discharged from the adjacent Fort Campbell Army post, and eventually relocated to Nashville.

Middle Patuxent Environmental Area

The Middle Patuxent Environmental Area (MPEA) is a 1,021 acres wildlife area in Clarksville.

Paden Tolbert

In 1880, his father sold the family estate in Griffin and traveled by train to Clarksville, Arkansas where he became successful in growing peach trees and introducing the Elberta peach.

Ted Petty Invitational

The first-annual Ted Petty Invitational took place on November 1 and 2, 2002 in Clarksville, Indiana.

Willie Royster

Willie Arthur Royster (born April 11, 1954 in Clarksville, Virginia) is a retired American professional baseball player.

WVBG-LP

The station will relocate its transmitter to Clarksville, New York, on the other side of the Heidelberg Mountains.


Ada Mills

For more than four decades, she spearheaded the campaign to build a replacement bridge on Arkansas Highway 109 over the Arkansas River between Clarksville and the community of Morrison Bluff in Logan County.

Ashland City, 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.

Cheatham

Cheatham Middle School, a middle school in the Clarksville Independent School District, Texas, United States

Clarksville Independent School District

Clarksville ISD operates four campuses, including Clarksville High School (grades 9-12), Cheatham Middle School (grades 6-8), Clarksville Elementary School (grades K-5), and the Vocational School/DAEP.

Douglas S. Jackson

Most of the descendants of these three physicians and brothers entered the medical field, but Doug chose instead the study of law following his graduation from Battle Ground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee and Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Dunn Center

The Winfield Dunn Center (officially the Winfield Dunn Health and Physical Education Building and Convocation Complex) is a 132,000 square-foot facility, located on the main campus of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Fort Defiance, Tennessee

The Fort has been owned by the City of Clarksville since the mid-1980s, when it was donated to the city by retired Judge Sam Boaz who had owned and preserved the site for some time.

Harlan Holleman

In 1980, Holleman attended the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan, along with delegate Ada Mills of Clarksville, who had been the only delegate in the nation initially committed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas in his bid for the presidential nomination.

Indiana Canal Company

The company's board members were made up mostly of men from Clarksville and included Aaron Burr, Davis Floyd and George Rogers Clark.

James H. McBride

They left their home near Clarksville and got as far as Bluffton in Yell County before McBride became too ill from pneumonia to continue.

Morgan Welles Brown

Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, and named after his father Dr. Morgan Brown IV (a revolutionary war soldier), his mother was the former Elizabeth Little.

Nathan L. Bachman

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.

Pontiac, Rhode Island

After Senator John Hopkins Clarke purchased the water rights, the region assumed the name of "Clarksville." After purchasing the area, the Pontiac Manufacturing Company named the area "Pontiac" after Chief Pontiac a Northwestern Indian chief.

Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee

It is home to most of Clarksville's restaurants, retail businesses, and industries, with U.S. Highway 79 (named "Wilma Rudolph Boulevard" in this area for the Olympic sprinter), running directly through the center.

Smoke a Little Smoke

The video includes Church driving vintage cars at Clarksville Speedway, and includes a cameo from NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne.

WCVQ

Gretchen Cordy, A Clarksville Native who Starred in Survivor: Borneo hosts the stations morning show along with Ryan Ploeckelman.

Williamson County Regional Airport

July 23, 1973: Ozark Air Lines Flight 809 between Nashville International Airport and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport had intermediate stops in Clarksville, Tennessee, Paducah, Kentucky, Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Marion-Williamson County Airport before arriving in St. Louis in the midst of a tornado warning.

WTFX

WTFX-FM, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Clarksville, Indiana, United States