The National Weather Service office in Nashville, Tennessee, recently honored the City of Clarksville, Tennessee, for their dedication in taking weather observations since 1854 (150 years!). An afternoon ceremony was held on October 7, 2004, at the City's Waste Water Treatment Plant, where employees currently log weather observations every night at midnight. Many of the employees were on hand to receive the plant's plaque and to learn some of the ways their information is used. Clarksville's The Leaf-Chronicle covered the presentation; its article is here. Later that evening, NWS Nashville presented a plaque to the Mayor of Clarksville during the City Council meeting at City Council Chambers in downtown Clarksville.