62 Business View Magazine - September 2016
Clarksville, Tennessee
Top spot in the state
Clarksville, Tennessee is the fifth largest city in the
state with a population of approximately 150,000. It
was incorporated in 1785, and named after General
George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter, Revolutionary
War hero, and brother of William Clark of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition. It is situated in the northernmost
portion of the state, 45 miles northwest of Nashville,
at the confluence of the Red and Cumberland Rivers.
Clarksville is home to Fort Campbell and the 101st Air-
borne Division, an elite, modular specialized light in-
fantry division of the United States Army, known as the
“Screaming Eagles.”
First settled by Paleo-Indians nearly 11,000 years ago,
and later by the Muscogee, Yuchi, Chickasaw, and
Cherokee Tribes, the area now known as Tennessee
was visited by Spanish explorers in the late 16th cen-
tury. By the late 18th century, European settlers had
firmly established their presence and after the Ameri-
can Revolution, Clarksville was designated as a town
to be settled, in part, by soldiers from the disbanded
Continental Army in lieu of the wages that the new na-
tion could not afford to pay them.
