The Leaf-Chronicle

The Leaf-Chronicle

The July 27, 2005 front page of The Leaf-Chronicle
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Gannett
Editor	Gary Estwick
Founded	1808 (as the Clarksville Chronicle)
Headquarters	200 Commerce St. Clarksville, Tennessee 37040  United States
Circulation	22,264 Morning 26,327 Sunday [1]
Website	theleafchronicle.com

The Leaf-Chronicle is a newspaper in the state of Tennessee, founded, officially, in 1808.

First appearing as a weekly newspaper under various names as early as 1808 and eventually as the Clarksville Chronicle, the current name is the result of a subsequent merger, in 1890, with the Tobacco Leaf, named for the area's predominant agricultural crop. (See Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, pg. 817) The Leaf-Chronicle is published daily in Clarksville, Tennessee. The Leaf-Chronicle achievement that has perhaps received the greatest acclaim in recent years is its continuing to publish every day after downtown Clarksville and its printing plant received a direct hit from a powerful tornado in January 1999.