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Clarksville women saw a need for banking independent of their husbands and fathers who were fighting. In response, the First Women's Bank of Tennessee was established in 1919 by Mrs. Frank J. Runyon. The 1920s brought additional growth to the city. A bus line between Clarksville and Hopkinsville was established in 1922.
North of Clarksville on Allen-Griffey Rd.; also 2401 and 2409 Allen Griffey Rd. ... Clarksville: 2: Home Infirmary: August 24, 1978 (#78002620) July 24, 2008:
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The county was named for John Montgomery, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and an early settler who founded the city of Clarksville. It was authorized on April 9, 1796, when the western portion of Tennessee County, which since 1790 had been part of the Territory South of the River Ohio, became part of the new state of Tennessee.
Henderson County was established in 1821; it was named for Lt. Colonel James Henderson, [4] Jr. (1775–1814), of the Tennessee State Militia, who was killed in late December 1814 below New Orleans during a clash with the British Army.
Cumberland City is located at (36.390469, -87.640801 [6]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.3 square miles (13.7 km 2), of which 4.8 square miles (12 km 2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2), or 8.9% is water.
Tennessee is home to the first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to begin operation in the 21st century, which is at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Rhea County. [327] Tennessee was also an early leader in hydroelectric power, [ 328 ] and today is the third-largest hydroelectric power-producing state east of the Rocky Mountains . [ 329 ]