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De Witt (or DeWitt) is a city in Arkansas County, Arkansas, United States, which also serves as the county seat of the county's southern district. The population was 3,292 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk )〕 Dewitt was featured as the setting for the movie ''Mud'', released May 2013. == History == The territorial capital of Arkansas was moved from Arkansas Post to Little Rock in 1821. However, Arkansas Post remained the Arkansas County seat. In a few years, as the result of the opening of large plantations along the Arkansas and White Rivers, the towns of Old Auburn and St. Charles became larger than Arkansas Post, which was located in the extreme southern end of the county. Jealousy arose between these towns. St. Charles and Old Auburn, assisted by Napoleon at the mouths of the Arkansas and White Rivers, forced an election for the purpose of changing the location of the Arkansas County seat. At this election, held in 1852, these towns won over Arkansas Post, and Col. Charles W. Belknap of St. Charles and Leroy Montgomery of Keathon were appointed to select the new county seat. County Surveyor Adam McCool was elected to assist them. They selected the present site of DeWitt which is within one half mile of the geographical center of the county. After selecting the town site, the question of naming it was discussed. Since nothing could be decided, Belknap, Montgomery, and McCool each wrote a name on a slip of paper. They then dropped the names in a hat and pulled them out. What was selected was DeWitt, McCool's choice. McCool was a great admirer of DeWitt Clinton of New York. Since there was another town named Clinton, he selected DeWitt. Col. Belknap was later instructed by the county court to build a jail and a courthouse. He had a log courthouse erected, consisting of three buildings: one for the courtroom, another for the Clerk and Sheriff's offices, and the third for a jury room. In 1861, the Quorum Court made provisions for the construction of a brick courthouse and appointed Col. W. H. Halliburton commissioner to secure plans and bids for its construction. He resigned before much was done, and James M. Barker was named his successor. 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「De Witt, Arkansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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