02-16-2023 Howard Mag - Flipbook - Page 22
COMMUNITIES & HOUSING
Houses are interspersed with green space in the Village of River Hill neighborhood in Clarksville
PHOTOS BY JERRY JACKSON
Clarksville and Highland
AT A GLANCE
Clarksville
Typical home value: $948,962
Population: 11,333
Founded: 1851
Source: city-data, Zillow
Highland
Typical home value: $905,289
Population: 1,086
Founded: 1759
Sources: datausa.io, Zillow
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T
hese 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 2 miles to the
north, Clarksville sprang up at the intersection of Routes 108
and 32.
During the 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, local 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.