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Caledonia County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of the 2010 census, the population was 31,227.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/50/50005.html )〕 Its shire town is St. Johnsbury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created in 1792 and organized in 1796. It was given the Latin name for Scotland, in honor of the many settlers who claimed ancestry there.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Caledonia County, Vermont Local History and Genealogy )〕 ==History== The county shares the same pre-Columbian history with the Northeast Kingdom. Rogers' Rangers were forced to retreat through the county following their attack on Saint-Francis, Quebec in 1759. To confound their avenging pursuers, they had split up. One group came south over the summit into the Passumpsic River Valley.〔, page 1〕 Vermont was divided into two counties in March, 1778. In 1781 the legislature divided the northernmost county, Cumberland, into three counties: Windham and Windsor, located about where they are now. The northern remainder was called Orange county. This latter tract nearly corresponded with the old New York county of Gloucester, organized by that province March 16, 1770, with Newbury as the shire town. On November 5, 1792, the legislature divided Chittenden and Orange counties into six separate counties, as follows: Chittenden, Orange, Franklin, Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans.〔 There is a supposition that the county was called Caledonia, to commemorate the large number of Scottish settlers.〔(Orleans County, Vermont: History and Information ). E-referencedesk.com. Retrieved on 2014-04-12.〕 Caledonians joined the Union Army in response to a call for volunteers. In September 1861, they joined the Vermont 6th Vermont Infantry, and helped fill out Companies B, D and E. The regiment ultimately became part of the First Vermont Brigade. In 2008, the county was declared a federal disaster area as the result of storms and flooding which occurred on July 18. 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「Caledonia County, Vermont」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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