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Boone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.As of the 2010 census, the population was 54,165.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/17/17007.html )〕 Its county seat is Belvidere.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Boone County is included in the Rockford, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Boone County was formed in 1837 out of Winnebago County. It was named for Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone. The first non-Native American settlers arrived in what is now Boone County in 1835. They arrived as a result of the end of the Black Hawk War as well as the completion of the Erie Canal. They consisted entirely of settlers from New England. These were "Yankee" settlers, that is to say they were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the colonial era. They were primarily members of the Congregational Church though due to the Second Great Awakening many of them had converted to Methodism and some had become Baptists before coming to what is now Boone County. When the New England settlers arrived in what is now Boone County there was nothing but a dense virgin forest and wild prairie. In the late 1870s immigrants began arriving from Germany and Ireland.〔The Past and Present of Boone County, Illinois: Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, General and Local Statistics, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, Constitution of the United States, Map of Boone County, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc by H.F. Kett & Company, 1877 page 226〕 File:Boone County Illinois 1837.png|Boone County at the time of its creation in 1837 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「Boone County, Illinois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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