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Caldwell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 38,066.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48055.html )〕 Its county seat is Lockhart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded in 1848 and was named after Mathew Caldwell, a ranger captain who fought in the Battle of Plum Creek against the Comanches and against Santa Anna's armies during the Texas Revolution. Caldwell was also a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Caldwell County is part of the Austin-Round Rock, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== *8000 b.c. Paleo-Indians Hunter-gatherers, and later Tonkawa, Karankawa.and Comanche, first inhabitants. *1825 Caldwell County is part of Green DeWitt's petition for a land grant to establish a colony in Texas is approved by the Mexican government. *1839 Edmund Bellinger becomes the first settler of Prairie Lea, the county’s oldest town. Sam Houston names the town for his future wife Margaret Lea Houston. *1848 March - The legislature forms Caldwell County from Bastrop and Gonzales counties. The county seat is called Lockhart.〔 *1860 County population is 2,871. There are 1,610 slaves.〔 Community of Fentress is established, originally as Riverside, later changed to Fentress to honor the town’s first physician James Fentress. *1861 County votes 434-188 in favor of secession from the Union. Several hundred men from Caldwell County serve in the Confederate States Army.〔 *1870’s St. John Colony established by former slaves. *1874 Town of Luling is established. John and James Merriwether and Leonidas Hardeman build a gristmill and a sawmill, later to be known as Zedler’s Mills. *1887 The Missouri, Kansas and Texas completes its track between Lockhart and San Marcos.〔 *1889 The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway connects Lockhart and Luling to Shiner.〔 *1892 The Missouri, Kansas and Texas lays track from Lockhart east to Smithville.〔 *1880-1900 Tenant farming accounts for nearly half of all the county's farming and as much as 75 percent of the 3,149 farms.〔 *1902 The Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention is established in McMahan. *1922, August 9 – Edgar B. Davis discovers the Luling Oilfield. *1927 The Luling Foundation is established by Edgar B. Davis to teach diversity in agriculture and improve the lives of farm and ranch families. *1948 Lockhart State Park opens to the public. *1953 Luling establishes its annual Watermelon Thump celebration. 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「Caldwell County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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