Celebrating a Tennessee Triumph: New monument to honor Clarksville’s suffragists
August 16, 2019
Clarksville, TN – On a July afternoon in 1914, more than 75 people crowded into a house on Madison Street for a meeting of the newly established Clarksville Equal Suffrage League.
The women who joined the league that afternoon spent the next six years facing ridicule and threats of violence in the pursuit of their goal – earning women the right to vote.
A woman casts her first vote in this miniature replica of the statue. (APSU)
Friends of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library Book Sale Full of Bargains
April 30, 2012
Clarksville, TN – If you are a reader and haven’t discovered the Friends of the Library Book Sale, you don’t know what you’re missing. Imagine hundreds of books at bargain prices all in one room and you have a hint at what goes on.
The sale is held twice a year—and last Saturday was the Spring sale. It takes place at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library (350 Pageant Lane) in a trio of rooms just to the right of the entry to the library door.
There was a good turn out for the Friends of the Library book sale Saturday.
Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution Genealogy workshop
November 14, 2011
Public Library Wednesday, November 16th at 1:00pm
Clarksville, TN – Have you ever wondered what it would be like to follow your family paths back to the American Revolution? By starting with your own immediate family and tracing your history back in time through historical documents, you can accomplish this goal.
Join us at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library Genealogy Room (Upstairs) Wednesday, November 16th at 1:00 pm to begin your journey into the past Men and women interested in joining the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) or Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) will find this workshop to be a helpful beginning to finding their ancestral Patriot. [Read more]
