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Bellefonte is a 6th-class city in Greenup County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 837 at the 2000 census. Bellefonte is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 288,649. Locally, Bellefonte is known for its upscale neighborhoods and the private Bellefonte Country Club, which has a championship level 18 hole golf course and formal ballroom. Bellefonte was first incorporated on July 3, 1951, beginning with only 275 residents and developed in the latter half of the 20th century as a suburb of Ashland. The exclusive nature of the city is evident by its demographic makeup. Within the corporate limits, there are virtually no residents under the poverty line.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕 Nearby, Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital is named for its location, being just north of Bellefonte in Russell. In 1985, Ashland Inc. relocated its national headquarters from Winchester Avenue in downtown Ashland to a hill in Russell just north of Bellefonte. This ultra-modern business park complex, was suitable for any fortune 100 company such as Ashland, Inc. It comprised four state of the art glass office buildings: an executive building, two general office buildings and a combination warehouse/office building that contained printing presses and other service-type functions such as landscaping, etc. In 1999, the Corporation moved to Covington, Kentucky. Ashland, Inc. initially retained the executive office building and the office services building and still occupies the office services building. The other structures, after a brief period as office facilities, were ultimately sold to Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital, are known as Bellefonte Centre and Bellefonte Pavilion, and are used for physicians offices & clinics, hospital business offices, other hospital services and are rented to other businesses. ==Geography== Bellefonte is located at (38.493560, -82.688364). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. The city sits on a plateau directly northwest of Ashland, centered on Kentucky Route 5 and Country Club Drive. Route 5 terminates at U.S. Route 23 near the Boyd/Greenup county line. The older section of what would become Bellefonte was laid out in town lots and sold, beginning in 1918 by the Means and Russell Iron Company. It was originally part of the several thousand-acre Wheatley farm. It was named after the iron furnace that was operated there from 1826–1893, named the Bellefonte Furnace. Some remnants of the old furnace remain today in Bellefonte as its hand-cut limestone blocks are used as a retaining wall along Oxcart Road, near the Community Presbyterian Church, which is located on the original site of the iron furnace. The name Bellefonte is of French origin, a combination of the words "beautiful" and "fountain". A few of the original log-built dwellings from the 1800s iron furnace settlement remain along Route 5, but have been upgraded to upscale residential homes. 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「Bellefonte, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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