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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 (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Montgomery county, See also:

TENNESSEE

Tennessee, U.S.A., situated in the N. See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, about 5o M. N.W. of See also:

NASHVILLE

Nashville, on the See also:

Cumberland See also:

RIVER

river, at the mouth of the Red river. Pop. (189o) 7924; (1900) 9431, of whom 5094 were negroes; (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 8548. It is served by the See also:

LOUISVILLE

Louisville & Nashville, and the See also:

ILLINOIS

Illinois Central See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by passenger and See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight steamboat lines on the Cumberland river. The city hall• and the public library are among the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal public buildings, and the city is the seat of the Tennessee See also:

ODD (in middle English odde, from old Norwegian oddi, an angle of a triangle; the old Norwegian oddamann is used of the third man who gives a casting vote in a dispute)

Odd See also:

FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-1860)

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

tobacco belt—commonly known as the " See also:

Black Patch "—and is an important tobacco See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market, with an See also:

ANNUAL

annual See also:

trade in that See also:

STAPLE

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

Indian See also:

corn, and vegetables, and for the raising of live-stock; and Clarksville is a See also:

SHIPPING

shipping point for the lumber—chiefly See also:

OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak, See also:

poplar and birch—and the See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-ore of the surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the Louisville. & Nashville railway extending into the iron See also:

DISTRICT

district. The city's principal manufactures are See also:

FLOUR

flour and grist See also:

mill products, chewing and smoking tobacco and See also:

SNUFF (from " to snuff, " i.e. to inhale, to draw in through the nose; cf. Dutch snuf, scent, Ger. Schnupfen, a cold, catarrh, and Eng. " snuffle, " " sniff, " &c.)

snuff, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, See also:

LUMBER

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

municipality owns its See also:

WATER

water-See also:

WORKS

Clarksville was first settled as See also:

early as 1780, was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

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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