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Christian County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 73,955.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21047.html )〕 Its county seat is Hopkinsville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed in 1797. Christian County is part of the Clarksville, TN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== The county is named for Colonel William Christian, a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and a veteran of the Revolutionary War. He settled near Louisville, Kentucky in 1785, and was killed by Native Americans in southern Indiana in 1786. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America was born in Fairview, Kentucky, then in Christian County but now in Todd County, in 1808. Adlai Stevenson I was born in Christian County in 1835. The present courthouse, built in 1869, replaced a structure that burned in 1864. The United States Supreme Court case ''Barker v. Wingo'', 407 U.S. 514 (1972), arose out of a 1958 double-murder in Christian County, Kentucky. In 2006 and 2008, tornadoes touched down across northern Christian County, damaging homes in the Crofton area. In 2017, northwestern Christian County will experience the longest duration of totality in the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 that will cross North America. The center will be in the Bainbridge/Sinking Fork area of the county, on the Orchard Dale farm. 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「Christian County, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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