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Blythe is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Palo Verde Valley of the Lower Colorado River Valley region, an agricultural area and part of the Colorado Desert along the Colorado River. Blythe was named after Thomas H. Blythe, a San Francisco financier, who established primary water rights to the Colorado River in the region in 1877. The city was incorporated on July 21, 1916. The population was 20,817 at the 2010 census. ==History== In 1875, Thomas Henry Blythe (real last name Williams), a native of England, visited what is now Blythe, intent on finding real estate for development and settlement of an "empire" located next to the Colorado. On July 17, 1877, Blythe filed his first claim for Colorado River water on what was to become the "Blythe Intake".〔An historical marker for the intake was placed by the Palo Verde Valley Historical Society and Riverside County Parks and Recreation in 1986. 〕〔{Blythe resided in San Francisco and focused in real estate investments. Among his investments was a patch of undeveloped land within what is now downtown San Francisco. Development in the purchased site within Market Street, Geary Street, and Grant Street, called the "Blythe Block", and being in the center of downtown, made Blythe wealthy. The Blythe Block was sold off in portions in 1901 and 1902. http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/71summer/desert.htm〕 Blythe worked with the engineer William Calloway (known as Oliver P. Calloway in some sources, killed by the Chemehuevi in 1880) and George Irish until his death in April 4, 1883; Blythe's only revisit to the valley was in Fall 1882.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pvid.org/history.html )〕〔 Blythe's estate subsequently went into litigation between his illegitimate daughter Florence and other claimants. The California Supreme Court up to 1895, and the U.S. Supreme Court towards the early 1900s, ruled that Florence was the holder of the estate, after several years of preceding rulings in favor of her and appeals against her in these courts.〔〔 Frank Murphy and Ed Williams, who were involved on the cattle industry and came from nearby Arizona, came to the area in 1904 and were convinced it was well-suited for cattle and farming. With the help of the Hobson brothers, they bought Blythe's estate holdings in the valley and formed the Palo Verde Land and Water Company.〔 In 1911, W.F. Holt, who helped develop nearby Imperial Valley, became the company's general manager. On August 8, 1916, the California Southern Railroad reached Blythe from the desert station of Rice, California, then known as Blythe Junction. It was later renamed to honor G.W. Rice, the superintendent of the railroad. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway took control of the line between 1921 and 1991. In 1972, Interstate 10 was built through the city, replacing US 60 and US 70 as the main thoroughfare. 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「Blythe, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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