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CHAPTER XVI.

CLARKSVILLE, THEN AND NOW --
STEPHENSBORO, ONCE THE
METROPOLIS OF RED
RIVER COUNTY*

As heretofore stated, the town of Clarksville was chartered under the Republic of Texas, December, 1837, under President Burnet. The inhabitants of Clarksville numbered then only six hundred and Clarksville did not reach the required population to be classed as a city until 1870, when her population reached one thousand. In the early forties there were just a few business houses on East Main in what is now the Main Hotel block. The first mercantile house was a room adjoining the residence of James Clark, the founder of Clarksville. Sidewalks and paved streets were not then in existence.

The first courthouse was erected on the public square, chiefly made of logs and was built by Gilbert Clark and others. It answered the purposes
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*Personnel of the City government at the present time is as follows:
W. P. Cornelius, Mayor ALDERMEN
N. H. McCulloch, City Clerk
Dr. Nowlin Watson, Health Officer
B. F. Edwards, City Atty.
O. W. McBryde, City Treas.
Wade Parks
J. P. West
Clovis Graves
Homer Pope
Roy Dinwiddie
Saul Rosenfield
Elmore McClinton
W. C. Hamilton

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The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County
Pat B. Clark   1937