The CCDC could not have asked for better weather on Sunday for our Ice Cream Social. A record number of people turned out to eat ice cream — homemade ice cream and store-bought ice cream — hang out with friends and neighbors and play yard games.

After a several year hiatus due to COVID, the CCDC’s popular Ice Cream Social is returning on Sunday, April 30 from 1-3. It will take place at the Haskell House, 1703 Waterston Avenue.

Pauline Stewart Brown was born in Austin’s Wheatville Freedman Colony to Archie and Clara Carrington Stewart and moved to Clarksville in 1942. She joined Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church when she was 8 years old and was a mainstay of the church and a frequent choir soloist until her death in 2009.

Mary Freeman Baylor, a lifelong resident of Clarksville, spent her professional life struggling to improve the quality of life of Clarksville residents and fighting to preserve the historic Clarksville Community.

This Is the First of Three Posts About Women Important to Clarksville's History

Clarksville Conversations: Sundays at the Haskell House is a free speaker series that will happen once a quarter on the same Sunday that the House will be open to the public as a museum.

The Clarksville Community Development Corporation (CCDC) operates the Haskell House as a museum about historic Clarksville, a former freedom colony that was founded in 1871.

The Clarksville Community Development Corporation (CCDC) operates the Haskell House as a museum about historic Clarksville, a former freedom colony that was founded in 1871.

The CCDC is proud to announce that its the recipient of a $30,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc. The grant will help the organization complete the construction of an affordable single-family rental home at 1611 West 10th in Clarksville. American YouthWorks is the general contractor for the project.