CLARKSVILLE A post town of Pike county, on the Missouri River, 18 miles from Bowling Green, the county seat; 105 from St. Louis, and 90 from Jefferson City. Clarksville was first settled by James Burns in 1818, and in 1825 a post office was established. The chief products of the township are tobacco, wheat, corn, apples and pork. The timber, oak, walnut and hickory. The average price of uncultivated lands $35 per acre, cultivated $45. It contains two churches, (Methodist and Christian), one Masonic Lodge, (Cladsmen Lodge, No.17), one I. O. O. F., (Clarksville Lodge, No. 53), two schools, two carding machines, one brick yard, one drug store, one Express office, (Adams & Co.,) five general stores, one jeweler, two steam flouring mills, two hotels, three steam saw mills, one woolen goods manufacturer, and one stove and tin ware manufacturer. Population 1,000. (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)