Note 170 — Chapter XXXVIII
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On the early history of Louisville, see Croghan’s Journals, vol. i of this series, p. 136, note 106.
Clarksville was established (1783) on the grant of lands given by the Virginia legislature to the soldiers who had served in Clark’s campaign in the Illinois. Much was expected of this new town opposite the Falls of Ohio; but it never flourished, and gradually declined before its more prosperous neighbor, Jeffersonville (founded in 1802), and has now become but a suburb of the manufacturing town of New Albany. General George Rogers Clark had a home on a point of rocks near Clarksville.—Ed.