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History of Clarksville, Tennessee
Clarksville is a city in Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA. Clarksville is the county seat of Montgomery County and is Tennessee's fifth largest city. As of the 2005 census estimates, the city had a total population of 123,395. Clarksville is the principal central city of the Clarksville-Hopkinsville metropolitan statistical area, which consists of Montgomery County and Christian County, Kentucky.
Clarksville is the home of Austin Peay State University. The Fort Campbell, Kentucky United States Army|Army post, which straddles the Tennessee-Kentucky state line, is approximately 10 miles (16 km) from Clarksville.
Clarksville was incorporated in 1785, and named for General George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter and American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War hero. Clarksville is home to The Leaf-Chronicle, established in 1869.
The city has several List of city nicknames in the United States|nicknames: "The Queen City", "Gateway to the New South", and "Clarksvegas" (The name of a former bar in town).
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