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COMMUNITIES & HOUSING
Large homes are seen along Macbeth Farm Lane near Clarksville. PHOTO BY JERRY JACKSON
CLARKSVILLE & HIGHLAND
AT A GLANCE
CLARKSVILLE
Typical home value: $962,949
Population: 13,414
Founded: 1851
Sources: city-data, Zillow
HIGHLAND
Typical home value: $934,319
Population: 1,086
Founded: 1759
Sources: datausa.io, Zillow
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These two small rural communities began as collections of
shops located on the corners of
busy 18th- and 19th-century intersections. Highland was founded in
1759 where what now is Route 108
meets Route 126. Nearly a century
later and two miles to the north,
Clarksville sprang up at the intersection of Routes 108 and 32.
During the American Civil War,
Well’s Tavern in Highland (now
a pet boarding and grooming
business) was the main gathering place for the area’s Northern
sympathizers.
Today, residents meet at Clarksville Commons, an environmentally sustainable complex
of offices, shops and restaurants with a green roof, outdoor
fire pits, solar panels and a rain
garden.
Or they stroll through the
1,021-acre Middle Patuxent Environmental Area — the largest
parkland in Howard County —
and enjoy the company of the
approximately 150 species of
birds and 40 species of mammals
that also make Clarksville and
Highland their homes.