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Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Red River County, Texas, in the Piney Woods of East Texas about 58 miles northwest of Texarkana.

Clarksville was established by James Clark, who moved to the area in 1833 and laid out a townsite, making it one of the oldest towns in Texas.

When Red River County - one of the original counties of the Republic of Texas - was organized in 1835, Clarksville was chosen as its county seat over the rival community of La Grange.

Clarksville was incorporated by an act of the Texas Congress in 1837.

From the late 1830s until the Civil War, Clarksville was the most important commercial center in Northwest Texas, serving the Red River settlements.

Clarksville calls itself the "Gateway to Texas" because Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie all entered Texas through Red River County.

The Clarksville Female Academy was founded in 1840, and in 1842 Charles DeMorse began publishing the Northern Standard in Clarksville, one of the Republic of Texas's first newspapers.

The restored Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville was built in 1884-85, and because the town never suffered a major fire, its courthouse records survive from the days of the Republic of Texas.

Clarksville had 2,857 residents at the 2020 census, down from 3,285 in 2010 and 4,311 in 1990.

Clarksville is a designated Texas Main Street City and a Preserve America Community, with its economy rooted in agribusiness, lumbering, and manufacturing.