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Beloit is a city in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 36,966.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕〔http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table〕 == History == Beloit was a New England settlement. The original founders of Beloit consisted entirely of settlers from New England. These people were "Yankees", that is to say they were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s. They were part of a wave of New England farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory during the early 1800s. Most of them arrived as a result of the completion of the Erie Canal. When they arrived in what is now Beloit there was nothing but dense virgin forest and wild prairie, the New Englanders laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes. They brought with them many of their Yankee New England values, such as a passion for education, establishing many schools as well as staunch support for abolitionism. They were mostly members of the Congregationalist Church though some were Episcopalian. Due to the second Great Awakening some of them had converted to Methodism before moving to what is now Beloit and some had become Baptist. Beloit, like much of Wisconsin, would be culturally very continuous with early New England culture for most of its early history.〔Southeastern Wisconsin: a history of Old Milwaukee County, Volume 3 John Goadby Gregory S.J. Clarke, 1932〕〔The Expansion of New England: The Spread of New England Settlement and Institutions to the Mississippi River, 1620-1865 by Lois Kimball Matthews Rosenberry, 1909 page 240, 241 and 242〕 Twelve men in Colebrook, New Hampshire created the "New England Emigrating Company" in October 1836. They sent a man named Dr. Horace White to find a suitable region of Wisconsin to settle. The level fields and the water power of Turtle Creek, as well as the "unlimited gravel" in the area around what is now Beloit fixed the site of the intended village and farms. Dr. White purchased the land. At the same time as the Colebrook settlers, six families from Bedford, New Hampshire arrived and settled in the region as well. They said that the Rock River Valley had a "New England look", which made them feel at home. The village was platted in 1838 and was planned with wide streets which built on the New England model.〔 Beloit was originally named ''New Albany'' (after Albany, Vermont) in 1837 by its founder, Caleb Blodgett. The name was changed to ''Beloit'' in 1838.〔Callary, Edward. 2009. ''Place Names of Illinois''. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, p. 326.〕〔 〕 The name ''Beloit'' was coined to be reminiscent of ''Detroit''.〔 Beloit lays claim to such inventions as the speedometer,〔(Arthur Warner )〕 Korn Kurls,〔(Beloit Historical Society )〕 and John Francis Appleby's twine binder.〔(Appleby, John Francis 1840 - 1917 )〕 Korn Kurls, which resemble Cheetos, are credited with the founding of the snack food industry. 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「Beloit, Wisconsin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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