Introduction
For the last few decades, the city of Clarksville has largely been shaped by two institutions: Fort Campbell and Austin Peay State University.
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Who to call
Montgomery County Animal Control and Adoption Service, 616 N. Spring St. 648-5750. www.montgomerycountytn.org. Office hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Adoption hours: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-noon Saturday.
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History
About 200 million years ago, a large meteor made a direct impact at the confluence of what would later be known as Houston, Stewart and Montgomery counties in Tennessee.
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Outpatient services
Premier Medical Group (www.premiermed.com) is a locally owned and operated multi-specialty physician group practice. Each clinic has regular office hours, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. The after-hours clinic, which is at the Family Medicine Center, 2831 Wilma Rudolph Blvd., is open until 8 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday and 1-4 p.m. on holidays. 245-7000.
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Libraries
Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, 350 Pageant Lane. Hours: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 648-8826. www.clarksville.org.
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Gateway Medical Center
Gateway Medical Center is a 270-bed, acute-care facility serving upper middle Tennessee and south central Kentucky. Its 1,100 employees served almost 12,000 inpatients and 57,000 emergency patients in 2010.
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Weather
Clarksville's climate is moderate overall, but it can be extreme at times.
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Mental health
Centerstone, Tennessee's largest — and one of the nation's largest — not-for-profit behavioral health care providers, offers a full range of mental health and substance abuse treatment and related educational services to children, adolescents, adults, seniors and families.
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Home care
• Gateway Home, Health & Hospice Care, 141 Hatcher Lane, 502-3600. www.todaysgateway.com.
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Health care professionals
• Joseph T. Belleau, M.D., Clarksville Allergy Clinic. 645-5689.
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Media
Tennessee's oldest newspaper, celebrating 203 years of existence, offers a morning paper delivered seven days a week, an award-winning, continuously updated website, as well as other publications and services. Collectively, The Leaf-Chronicle, its websites and non-daily publications and services are marketed under the banner of The Leaf-Media Group.
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Communities
Montgomery County's history and tradition come from its many small communities, most of which retain their identity in name only.
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Celebrities
The man who would become our area's first state governor, Willie (pronounced "Wiley") Blount came to Tennessee County in 1790 and settled on the eastern part of what is now Montgomery County to farm and practice law.
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Cars
The diversification of the Clarksville-Montgomery County economy is good news to several industries, including new car dealers. In 2010, they sold more than 6,220 new cars locally despite the deployment of the 101st Airborne Division.
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Alternative health care
Alternative, preventive and holistic health care in Clarksville continues to grow. Some M.D.s are embracing alternative medicine as a complement to their own practices.
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Restaurants
• Silke's Old World Breads, Bakery and Cafe Specialties in artisan breads, soups, pizza, sandwiches and German pastries. Open 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday. 1214 A College St. 552-4422.
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Welcome to FactBook
If you're new to Clarksville, you're not alone. In fact, if you've lived in Clarksville all your life, you may feel like a newcomer sometimes, too, with the rapid pace of change in our city.
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Clubs & Organizations
• American Association of Retired Persons, meets 10 a.m. second Tuesdays at Hilldale United Methodist Church, 1751 Madison St. 645-3370.
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