Remembering historic railroads: The Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee — The Middle Tennessee community of Clarksville was once a bustling transportation hub.

It wasn’t just the riverboats plying the Cumberland River that made this region important. Railroads also proved essential to the farmers growing tobacco in the region. The Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad was the first railroad to pass through Clarksville.

That railroad is the subject of my book, which was published in 2019. It offers a fascinating window into what it took to finance and build a railroad in the years before the Civil War.

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Todd DeFeo loves to travel anywhere, anytime, taking pictures and notes. An award-winning reporter, Todd revels in the experience and the fact that every place has a story to tell. He is owner of The DeFeo Groupe and also edits Express Telegraph and The Travel Trolley.