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Clarksville City, TX - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Clarksville City  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Clarksville City Home page. The Clarksville City Home page provides as much information as possible on Clarksville City. Knowing Clarksville City’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Clarksville City’s Home page, you will also find Clarksville City’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Clarksville City has a population of 878. 58.5% of Clarksville City’s inhabitants are Male, and 41.5 are female. 52.1% of Clarksville City is married and 73.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $121,929, and the average rent is $933. Household median income in Clarksville City is $52,431, and the individual median income is $26,523. Clarksville City’s Ethnic is the following: White(84.7%), Hispanic(18.1%), Multiple(8.9%), Black(5.1%), Native(1.3%).


The first settlers arrived in the area before 1845. There was a stagecoach stop at the home of William W. Walters, which was later owned and operated by Warren P. Victory. Though first known as "Gilead", the post office was named "Point Pleasant" in 1852. It closed in 1867. The community withered when the railroad bypassed it in 1873 and Gladewater was established.


With the advent of the East Texas Oil Field in 1930, so many homes, businesses, and oil-company camps and offices sprang up along the highway that it was called the Main Street of Texas, and street numbers were designated from Longview to Gladewater. The area around George W. Clark's home on the site of the old stagecoach stop became known as "Clarksville". After extensive paving projects and other civic improvements in the 1940s and the construction of Lake Gladewater in 1952, the nearby city of Gladewater had a high tax rate and was extending its boundaries.


Industrialists in the area to the east became alarmed at the prospect of being taken into Gladewater and taxed more. A movement to incorporate, spearheaded by several oil companies and the L. W. Pelphrey Company, a general contractor specializing in oilfield construction, culminated in a vote to establish Clarksville City on September 14, 1956.


Pelphrey was elected mayor and served until his death in August 1961. The bypassed portion of Old Highway 80 is named Pelphrey Drive in his honor. The population dwindled as drilling reached the state allowable and producing wells became automated. Cities Service Oil Company closed its office and camp in the early 1960s, and Sun Oil Company soon followed.


After a population low of 359 in the 1960s, growth was steady. In 1990 Clarksville City had 720 residents and twenty businesses. In 2000 the population was 806. The town has an elected mayor and council with a city manager form of government. The city hall was built in 1962 and doubled in size in 1991.


A Texas historical marker for the old community of Point Pleasant is at the city hall.


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