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Boone ( ) is a city in Des Moines Township, and county seat of Boone County, Iowa, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=June 7, 2011 )〕 It is the principal city of the Boone, Iowa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Boone County. This micropolitan statistical area, along with the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area comprise the larger 'Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area. The population of the city was 12,661 at the 2010 census. ==History== Coal mining played an important part in the early history of the Boone area. Local blacksmiths were already mining coal from the banks of Honey Creek south of what became Boone in 1849. Boone was platted as a town in 1865 by John Insley Blair. It was incorporated the following year, when the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company railroad station was built there. The town was originally named "Montana";〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bird's eye view of the city of Montana, Boone Co., Iowa 1868 )〕 it was renamed to Boone in 1871.〔 The nearby town of Boonesboro was also chartered in 1866; Boonseboro was annexed to Boone in 1887.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=County History )〕 Commercial mining was spurred by the arrival of the railroad. In 1867, Canfield and Taylor opened a mine just west of town. Their mine shaft was 242 feet deep, and they hauled coal to the railroad by wagon. In 1874, a railroad spur was built to the mine. This mine was taken over by the railroad, and operated for 30 years. There are were coal seams in the Boone area, the upper vein, about 3 feet thick, was always worked using longwall mining, while the lower vein was always mined using room and pillar mining.〔James H. Lees, History of Coal Mining in Iowa, Chapter III of ( Annual Report, 1908 ), Iowa Geological Survey, 1909, pages 575–579.〕 In 1912, United Mine Workers Local 869 in Boone had 554 members, close to 10% of the population at the time.〔Tally Sheet, (Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America ) Jan. 16 – Feb. 2, 1912, Indianapolis; Volume 2, page 182A.〕 The first Casey's General Store was also founded in Boone, Iowa in 1968. The "Twister Hill" scene where Bill Harding and Jo Harding try and drop Dorothy amid a tornado in the Warner Bros. 1996 film ''Twister'' was filmed here. 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, Iowa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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