Our meetings take place on the 3rd Monday of each month in the Family Life Center of the Clarksville Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1410 Golf Club Lane, Clarksville, TN. The meetings start at 7:00 pm and are open to the public, and typically include a speaker with a 30-60 minute program (see schedule below).
The Board of Directors meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month, at 5:30pm in the Genealogy Room of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, 350 Pageant Lane.
Our Historical Preservation Committee meets the 1st Thursday of every month, at 3:00pm in the Board Room of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, 350 Pageant Lane
2024 Programs
January 15 Show and Tell
February 19 The African-American Legacy Trail, with Shana Thornton, Deputy County Historian
March 18 Show and Tell (rescheduled from January)
April 15 Medal of Honor winners from Tennessee, with William Parker
May 4 outing to Historic Collinsville and the Weakley House Museum
June 17 History of Evergreen Church and Green Hill Cemetery, with Raymond Rosado
July 15 Clarksville's "Miss May," with Jim Long
August 19 What to Take to the Graveyard with You, with Cleo Hogan
September 16 Smith-Trahern Mansion: History & Preservation of a Cultural Resource, with Roxanne Jenkins
October 21 Spooky Tales, with storyteller Tammy Hall
November 18 Quest for Sevier Station, A Forty-year Effort to Refute a Myth 1980-2023, with Dick Gildrie and Phil Kemmerly
December 16 Christmas Dinner and Preservation Awards
2025
January 20 Show and Tell
Preservation Efforts
The Historical Society is a Partner in the Montgomery County Preservation Coalition, a grass-roots effort in partnership with the Arts and Heritage Council, to protect historic structures in the county that are endangered by development or neglect.
The Society has contributed to the purchase of historical markers in the county, most recently the one on North 2nd St. for professional baseball player Steve Enloe Wylie.
In 2012, the Society presented a check for $11,560.00 to the City of Clarksville Parks & Recreation Department for replacement of the roof at Sevier Station, located on Walker Street, New Providence. The Historical Society had been advised that the roof was collapsing. The experts hired to replace the roof used the same materials and process that would have been used during original building construction.