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Clarksville is a town in Silver Creek and Jeffersonville townships, Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River as apart of the Louisville Metropolitan area. The population was 21,400 at the 2000 United States Census. The town, once a home site to George Rogers Clark, was founded in 1783 and is the oldest American town in the Northwest Territory. The town is home to the Colgate clock, one of the largest clocks in the world and the Falls of the Ohio State Park, a large fossil bed.

Geography

Clarksville is located at (38.311885, -85.767265).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 10.2 square miles (26.4 km²), of which, 10.1 square miles (26.1 km²) of it's land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (0.79%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 21,400 people, 8,984 households, and 5,561 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,120.6 people per square mile (818.9/km²). There were 9,537 housing units at an average density of 945.1/sq mi (364.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 90.56% White, 5.59% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.93% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.08% from other races, and 1.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.80% of the population.
   There were 8,984 households out of which 28.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.4% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.1% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.92.
   In the town the population was spread out with 23.1% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 91.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.8 males.
   The median income for a household in the town was $35,473, and the median income for a family was $44,688. Males had a median income of $30,860 versus $23,329 for females. The per capita income for the town was $20,315. About 5.6% of families and 8.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.5% of those under age 18 and 6.7% of those age 65 or over.

History

Clarksville is named for American Revolutionary War General George Rogers Clark who lived for a time on a point of land on the Ohio River. Founded in 1783, the town is believed to be the first true American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
   The site was first used as a base of operations by George Rogers Clark during the American Revolution. In 1778 he established a post on an island at the head of the Falls of the Ohio. From there he trained his 175 man regiment for the defense to the west. After the war Clark was granted a tract of for his services in the war. In 1783 one thousand acres where set aside for the development of a town, Clarksville. The same year a stockade was built and settlement began.
   The explorer William Clark was a younger brother of George Rogers Clark.
   Renowned historian Stephen Ambrose writes of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in Undaunted Courage, "When they shook hands, the Lewis and Clark Expedition began." However, several other localities also claim to be the start of Lewis and Clark's west expedition, most notably St. Louis, Missouri.
   The town failed to flourish in the 1800s due to the many floods and it's failed competition to build a canal around the Ohio. On Aug. 24 1805 the Indiana Territorial Legislature authorized the construction of a canal around the Falls of the Ohio at Clarksville. The first attempt failed and the investors lost their money, which was believed to have been used to finance the conspiracy of Aaron Burr. A second attempt to build a canal occurred in 1817 and again in 1820. But the race to build the canal would be lost in 1826 when the Federal Government made a large grant to build the Louisville and Portland Canal. The lack of a canal handicapped the growth of the town as the Falls of the Ohio made river transport from the city difficult.
   Clarksville became a popular dueling spot for Kentuckians who wanted to dodge Kentucky's anti-dueling laws. The most famous of these was the 1809 duel between Henry Clay and Humphrey Marshall. There was an attempt to build a second town within Clarksville's boundaries, named Ohio Falls City, until the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that this would be illegal. The town was managed by a ten member Board of Trustees in the charter from Virginia.

Attractions

Clarksville has the largest exposed fossil beds from the Devonian period and the state has built an education center and declared the area, alongside the Ohio River and bordering Kentucky, the Falls of the Ohio State Park. These fossils include plant and marine life from a prehistoric coral reef that are 386 million-years-old.
   Clarksville is home to the second-largest clock in the world at the former Colgate-Palmolive Plant near the Ohio River. Its future was is in question, as the Colgate company closed the plant in early 2008, however, the town has vowed to keep the clock in its current location viewable from downtown Louisville, KY.
   Clarksville has several parks and sports fields such as Lapping Park which contains a golf course, soft ball field, shelter house, anmphitheater, and hiking trails.
   The town also has the Clarksville Little Theater, one of the oldest continuously-running community theaters in the United States, and Derby Dinner Playhouse, the only dinner theater in the area.
   Clarksville is the birthplace of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse which is still located at its original location in the Green Tree Mall. In addition to those retail accomplishments Clarksville is also the home to the nations second largest Bass Pro at the River Falls Mall.
   Notable people of Clarksville are John James Audubon which did many of his bird fieldbook sketches at the Falls of the Ohio. and Frank Kimmel a NASCAR driver born in Clarksville.

Twin cities

The Clarksville sister or twin city program began in 1998. Bewdley and Melton Mowbray of England were the first sister cities to begin friendship ties in 1998 and 1999 and relations have continued. Most recently La Garenne-Colombes in Paris urban area, France, European Union joined the sister cities of Clarksville.

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