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ID: 7015659
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015659
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Clarksville (inhabited place)  Clarksville (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 087 21 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -87.3500  decimal degrees

Note: Located in northern Tennessee at confluence of Cumberland and Red rivers; named for George Clark, Revolutionary War soldier and frontiersman; flourished as river depot for tobacco, grain and& lumber; currently maintains a modern diversified agricultural economy.

Names:
Clarksville (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tennessee (state)  ............  Tennessee (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Montgomery (county)  ................  Montgomery (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Clarksville (inhabited place)  ....................  Clarksville (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1784 & incorporated as city in 1820
city (C)
county seat (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  for beef & dairy cattle
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for footwear, clothing, heating & cooling equipment & machine parts
educational center (C)  ............  includes Austin Peay State University
tourist center (C)  ............  includes Dunbar Cave with subterranean stream & varicolored rock formation, also Fort Donelson National Military Park

Sources and Contributors:
Clarksville..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 3:354
.......................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS47000272
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 270
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 354; 3:354
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS47000272
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 270
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)

 

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