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Bell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 310,235.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48027.html )〕 Its county seat is Belton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded in 1850 and is named for Peter Hansborough Bell, the third governor of Texas. Bell County is part of the Killeen–Temple, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2010, the center of population of Texas was located in Bell County, near the town of Holland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/docs/cenpop2010/CenPop2010_Mean_ST.txt )〕 ==History== * 1834–1835 Little River becomes part of Robertson's Colony, settlers from Nashville, led by Sterling C. Robertson: families of Captain Goldsby Childers, Robert Davison, John Fulcher, Moses Griffin, John Needham, Michael Reed and his son William Whitaker Reed, William Taylor, and Judge Orville T. Tyler. * 1836 The settlements are deserted during the Runaway Scrape, reoccupied, deserted again after the Elmwood Creek Blood Scrape, re-occupied again. Texas Ranger George Erath establishes a fort on Little River. * 1843–44 Settlers return.〔 * 1845 University of Mary Hardin–Baylor founded by the Republic of Texas as “Baylor Female College”. * 1850 Bell County is formed and named for Texas Governor Peter Hansborough Bell. Population 600 whites – 60 black slaves.〔 * 1851 County seat is Belton. * 1859 Last serious Indian raid of the area.〔 * 1860 Re-survey of the line between Bell and Milam County. Bell County assumes its present boundaries.〔 * 1861 County votes for secession from the Union.〔 * 1862–1865 Union sympathizers and Confederate deserters hole up in "Camp Safety."〔 * 1867 Belton Women’s Commonwealth, the first women’s movement in Central Texas, is formed by Martha McWhirter. The group provides shelter to women in abusive relationships.〔 * 1865–1877 Reconstruction in the county is so troubled that Federal troops are quartered in Belton. Corruption, lawlessness, and racial divides are rampant. Bell County has a local version of the KKK.〔 * 1875 Miriam A. Ferguson, first woman Governor of Texas, is born in Bell County.〔 * 1881 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, the first railroad to be built in Bell County, establishes Temple as its headquarters〔 * 1884 Current Bell County Courthouse is built. Renaissance Revival design is by architect Jasper N. Preston and Sons. * 1905 The Belton and Temple Interurban electric railway is constructed,〔 * 1920’s Ku Klux Klan revived in Bell County.〔 * 1925 Miriam A. Ferguson is inaugurated as governor. * 1926 Temple Junior College (later Temple College) opens. * 1933 Miriam A. Ferguson is inaugurated for her second, but non-consecutive, term as governor.〔 * 1942 Fort Hood opens as a military training base.〔 * 1956 Killeen school board votes to integrate local high school. * 1965 Central Texas College founded in Killeen.〔 * 1976 Temple Mall opens.〔(Urban Retail Properties: Temple Mall ) Center Information. Retrieved 31 December 2011.〕 * 1980 Killeen becomes the largest city in Bell County.〔 * 1981 Killeen Mall opens. * 1987 Bell County Expo Center opens * 1991, October 16 - Luby's shooting - George Jo Hennard Jr. kills 23 people, wounds 20 others, kills himself. It's the largest mass murder by firearm in the United States up to that time. Hennard shouted "This is what Bell County did to me! This is payback day!" as he opened fire.〔(Time Magazine, Oct, 28 1991 )〕 * 1995 Four years after the Luby’s shooting, Governor George W. Bush signs new law easing restrictions on carrying handguns by allowing Texans to carry concealed weapons with a required permit for concealed weapons. Texas thus tosses out a ban on carrying weapons that had been adopted by another Republican governor, E.J. Davis, 125 years earlier during a meeting of the post-Civil War Legislature.〔 http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/George_W__Bush_Gun_Control.htm〕 * 2009, November 5 - 2009 Fort Hood shooting – Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 people, wounds 30. * 2014, April 2 - 2014 Fort Hood shooting - Army Specialist Ivan Lopez kills 3 people, wounds 16. 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「Bell County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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