Audioguides Clarksville

Clarksville sits at the confluence of the Red River and the Cumberland River in Montgomery County, Tennessee, 48 miles northwest of Nashville. It is the fifth-largest city in Tennessee and has been shaped by two forces that still define it: the legacy of tobacco farming across the Cumberland Plateau, which made the city a major auction market through the 19th and early 20th centuries, and Fort Campbell, the massive Army post straddling the Tennessee-Kentucky border that is home to the 101st Airborne Division.

Downtown Clarksville has seen genuine revitalization since the 2000s.

The Public Square area retains brick commercial buildings from the tobacco prosperity era, and the Roxy Regional Theatre, a restored 1940s cinema on Franklin Street, anchors a cultural scene that includes galleries and a farmers' market. Dunbar Cave State Natural Area on the eastern edge of the city preserves a large cave system with a lake that was used as a resort in the early 20th century, hosting big-band performances in the cavern's entrance chamber. The Monkees' 1966 hit Last Train to Clarksville gave the city an unlikely pop-cultural imprint that locals neither entirely claim nor entirely disown.