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Clarksville Mesothelioma Lawyer

Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, and the fifth largest city in the state. The population was 103,455 at the 2000 census. Clarksville is the principal central city of the Clarksville, metropolitan statistical area, which consists of Montgomery County, Stewart County, Tennessee, Christian County, Kentucky and Trigg County, Kentucky.

The city was incorporated in 1785, and named for General George Rogers Clark, frontier fighter and Revolutionary War hero, brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Clarksville is the home of Austin Peay State University, The Leaf-Chronicle newspaper, and neighbor to the Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States Army post. Fort Campbell is the home of the 101st Airborne Division, and is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) from downtown Clarksville, straddling the Tennessee-Kentucky state line.

The city’s nicknames include “The Queen City” or “Queen of the Cumberland” and “Gateway to the New South”. The slogan “Tennessee’s Top Spot” was introduced as a new city “brand” in April 2008.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarksville,_Tennessee

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Louisville Mesothelioma Lawyer
Louisville is Kentucky’s largest city and county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city’s borders are coterminous with those of the county due to merger. The city’s estimated population as of 2008 is 713,877 (consolidated; balance total is 557,224), with a population of 1,268,323 in the Louisville metropolitan area. Louisville is most famous as the home of “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports”: the Kentucky Derby, the widely watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

Louisville is situated in north-central Kentucky on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio. Because it includes counties in Southern Indiana, the Louisville metropolitan area is regularly referred to as Kentuckiana. A resident of Louisville is referred to as a Louisvillian. Although situated in a Southern state, Louisville is influenced by both Midwestern and Southern culture, and is commonly referred to as either the northernmost Southern city or the southernmost Northern city in the United States.

The settlement that became the City of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville

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