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Russell is a home rule-class city〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform )〕 on the south bank of the Ohio River in Greenup County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,645 during the year 2000 U.S. Census. Russell is a suburb of Ashland and part of the Huntington-Ashland-Ironton metropolitan area. It has close economic affiliations with its neighbors, Ashland and Flatwoods in Kentucky and Ironton in Ohio. ==History== The hilly site near the confluence of White Oak Creek and the Ohio was chosen by pioneer Jeff Moore in 1823 in order to provide protection for his camp against attacks by local American Indian tribes.〔City of Russell. (Official site ). Accessed 21 April 2010.〕 In 1829, James E. McDowell, William Lindsay Poage, and his brother erected an iron furnace; they named the foundry and the community that grew up around it Amanda Furnace after William's infant daughter. The furnace ceased operation in 1861.〔Rennick, (p. 6 ). Accessed 29 September 2013.〕 John Russell and his Means and Russell Iron Company purchased the land of the present city beside Amanda Hill from the Poage brothers.〔 They laid out and established the town of Riverview in 1869〔 in expectation of an expansion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad westward from Huntington, West Virginia, to Cincinnati, Ohio. Ferry service to Ohio began in 1870,〔 local landowners agreed to rename the community after its founder in 1873,〔Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', (pp. 258–259 ). University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 29 September 2013.〕 and the city was formally incorporated under the name Russell in 1874.〔Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Russell, Kentucky". Accessed 26 Aug 2013.〕 The expected C&O spur did not arrive until 1889 but, when it did, it constructed a railyard, roundhouse, and shops and the city grew quickly. The city celebrates this influence with annual "Russell Railroad Days" each August.〔 Numerous disasters limited its growth. The Ohio River flooded the city in 1884, smallpox struck in 1901, and a fire consumed downtown and the city hall in 1903. In 1905, it was still the largest city in Greenup County, but the Ohio flooded again in 1913 and 1937. The 1937 flood affected all but 30 homes and over 500 people were forced to shelter in C&O boxcars and cabooses until the waters receded. Despite the completion of a bridge to Ironton in 1922 and a floodwall in 1950, Russell was no longer the county's largest municipality by the mid-1950s.〔''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'', (p. 789 ). "Russell". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1992. Accessed 29 September 2013.〕 The ''Fortune'' 500 company Ashland Oil relocated its headquarters to Russell in 1974,〔 but moved to the Cincinnati suburb of Covington in 1999. 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「Russell, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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