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Alexander is a city in Rush County, Kansas, United States.〔 As of the 2010 census, the city population was 65.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table )〕 ==History== Alexander is the oldest city in Rush County, Kansas. It was established in 1869 after becoming an important stopping point on the Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (officially a part of the Santa Fe Trail). The name of the town originated from Alexander Harvey who operated a stockaded trading post on the trail crossing of the Wet Walnut Creek. In its early days, Alexander was a trading post for trappers, buffalo hunters, wild horse wranglers, and other early Westerners. Buffalo Bill Cody, George Custer, and other prominent figures in American western settlement traveled through the community. Alexander Harvey himself was a former member of the 6th Cavalry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=History of Rush County )〕 The first post office in Alexander was established in February 1874.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 )〕 At its peak in the late 1800s, the community included a bank, hospital, newspaper, lumberyard, a Santa Fe Railroad Depot, hotel, multiple churches, multiple grocery and general stores. At varying times, the community's commercial activity has included cream and egg buying stations, a railroad stockyard for shipping cattle and sheep to eastern markets, and multiple grain elevators. In the 1960s and 70s, a local horseman cared for retired polo ponies. Today, Alexander's abandoned three story brick school building is a landmark on K-96 high way. The Golden Keys Club housed in the former Alexander State Bank Building. The community still has the largest grain elevator in Rush County. The elevator is a farmer's cooperative elevator owned by area farmers. Grumbine's Metal Scrap Yard is the other commercial entity in the community. In 2015, the "Alexander Wind Farm" will be constructed south of Alexander. It will cost about $85 Million and generate 48 Megawatt of power.〔(NJR Clean Energy acquires Kansas wind farm; October 24, 2014. )〕〔(Siemens touts order for 21 wind turbines for Kansas project; KAKE tv; January 23, 2015. )〕 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「Alexander, Kansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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