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Accokeek is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located about south of Washington, D.C. The population was 10,573 at the 2010 census. It is home to Piscataway Park. == History == Captain John Smith was the first European to see the Accokeek area when he sailed up the Potomac River. Father Andrew White, an English Jesuit missionary, later visited the Indian village and chief in nearby Piscataway. English farmers and planters settled the area in the late 17th century, and Christ Church (later Christ Episcopal Church) was established as a "Chapel of Ease" mission of St. John's Broad Creek in 1698. Marshall Hall was an outstanding colonial home southwest of Accokeek, in the river bottomlands near Bryans Road. Henry and Alice Ferguson settled in Accokeek when they purchased "Hard Bargain Farm" overlooking the Potomac River in 1922, as a vacation retreat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080806210106/http://www.fergusonfoundation.org/ferguson_era.html )〕 Henry Ferguson (1882–1966), an Ivy League-educated man (Harvard and Yale), worked for the Geological Survey starting in 1911.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History and Tradition )〕 Alice Leczinska Lowe Ferguson (1880–1951), wife of Henry Gardiner Ferguson, trained as a painter at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C, and had interests in archeology as well. Supposing it to be the site of the Moyaone (or Moyoane) Indian Village in Accokeek visited by Captain John Smith,〔Captain John Smith, diary and book, Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609, an account of exploration of the Chesapeake Bay region including stop at Moyoane Indian village on the Potomac River.〕 during his early explorations of North America, in the 1930s Alice Ferguson initiated archeological excavations. She wrote papers on the Piscataway Indians. A recent source states that while the site is probably not the one described by Captain John Smith, it is nonetheless still important. In 1966, the Accokeek Creek Site was made a National Historic Landmark.〔 After World War II, Maryland Route 210, a new two-lane highway to Washington, D.C., opened rural Accokeek to settlement by commuters. It attracted a limited number of settlers, especially U.S. Naval scientists and other intellectuals who built contemporary-style homes in an ecologically protected restricted area of west Accokeek called the "Moyaone Reserve". It retains a rural scenic character to this day. Some of these homes were designed individually by architect Charles Wagner, an early Moyaone resident whose family are still active in the community. (Dorothy Odell, The Home of Architect Charles Wagner ). Italian arms company Beretta opened a factory in Accokeek in the 1970s.〔 According to this source, the factory opened in 1977.〕 It won a federal contract to produce pistols for the military in 1985.〔 According to this source, the factory size was doubled in 1985 after Beretta was awarded a contract to produce the U.S. Armed Forces new standard issue 9mm sidearms, under the XM-9 contract.〕 On April 4, 2013, the company reported it would move its facilities out of Maryland to a state with a more business friendly environment for its products. It employs 400 people and pays $31 mil. to Maryland yearly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Accokeek, Maryland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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