Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Clarksville, IN

Clarksville is a town in Clark County, Indiana, on the Ohio River directly across from Louisville, Kentucky, and part of the Louisville metropolitan area.

Founded in 1783 by Revolutionary War general George Rogers Clark, Clarksville is the oldest American town in the former Northwest Territory.

The townsite sits at the Falls of the Ohio, the only seasonal rapids on the entire Ohio River.

In 1783, Virginia set aside 1,000 acres for the town out of the 150,000-acre Clark Grant awarded to General Clark and his soldiers, and a stockade was built and settlement began that same year.

Five years earlier, in 1778, Clark had established a post on an island at the head of the falls, where he trained his 175-man regiment during the Revolutionary War.

Historian Stephen Ambrose wrote that the Lewis and Clark Expedition began at Clarksville, when Meriwether Lewis shook hands there with William Clark, the younger brother of George Rogers Clark.

The George Rogers Clark Homesite, where the general spent his final years, is preserved at Falls of the Ohio State Park.

Falls of the Ohio State Park protects fossil beds that are among the largest naturally exposed Devonian fossil beds in the world.

Clarksville's Colgate Clock, 40 feet in diameter, is one of the largest clocks in the world; it was built in Jersey City in 1906 for the Colgate centennial and moved to the Clarksville plant, where it was first illuminated on November 17, 1924.

The Great Flood of 1937 decimated Clarksville, but the town boomed after World War II, growing from 2,400 people in 1940 to 22,333 at the 2020 census.