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Delano is a neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas, United States. A mixed commercial and residential area on the west bank of the Arkansas River, it is home to Friends University, Lawrence–Dumont Stadium, and Exploration Place, the Sedgwick County science museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = City of Wichita )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Historic Delano, Inc. )〕 ==History== Thanks to the availability of cheap land under the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers purchased land across the Arkansas River from Wichita, Kansas. These settlers named their new community Elgin. In 1870, Elgin became a cattle shipment point on the Chisholm Trail and began to grow.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Historic Delano, Inc. )〕 In March 1871, local residents renamed the town Delano after Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.wichita.gov/CityOffices/Planning/AP/NR/Delano/delano_neighborhood.htm )〕 Hotels, saloons, and other new businesses opened over the next two years along with a post office and a toll bridge across the river to Wichita.〔 Unlike Wichita, Delano had no law enforcement. As a result, it became an area center of drinking, gambling, and prostitution for cowboys working in the cattle trade. Gunfights occurred as well, including a fatal and locally famous incident between two saloon keepers in 1873. In the late 1870s, the cattle trade relocated west to Dodge City, and Delano’s period as a rowdy cowtown came to a close.〔 Wichita annexed Delano in 1880,〔 and it became locally known as West Wichita.〔(Edwards Map of the City of Wichita; John P. Edwards; 1882. )〕 An economic boom a few years later triggered residential development. Streets in the neighborhood were named after prominent settlers. New businesses opened as well, including a watch factory. Garfield University, later renamed Friends University, opened in Delano in 1887. By the end of the decade, however, the city had entered an economic recession, and many locals went bankrupt.〔 Development returned in the early 1900s with renewed growth in manufacturing and the oil industry.〔 In the 1920s, Wichita became a center of aircraft manufacturing, and several companies opened facilities in Delano. These included Travel Air moving to Delano in 1925 from 471 W. First, Cessna in 1927 at 1520 W. Douglas as well as smaller companies like the Wichita Blue Streak Motor Company, Hilton Aircraft, and Yunker Aircraft Corporation.〔 In the early 1930s, the Ackerman Island sandbar located in the middle of the Arkansas River was moved westward to become the west bank of the current river. The former baseball stadium on Ackerman Island was razed, so a new baseball field was built, Lawrence Athletic Field, later Lawrence–Dumont Stadium, opened in Delano in 1934.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Ball Parks of the Minor Leagues )〕 That same year, the city government had the Ben F. McLean Memorial Fountain built in the neighborhood to commemorate McLean a former mayor.〔 In the 1950s and 60s, businesses and retailers began to leave the neighborhood. The aircraft industry relocated elsewhere in the city. By the 1990s, the area had entered a period of modest decline. In 1999 and 2000, neighborhood organizations and the city government collaborated to develop and implement a revitalization plan, including infrastructure investment and new business development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = City of Wichita )〕 Since, Delano’s business district has become a local shopping and entertainment area marketed as the Historic Delano District.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = ''The Wichita Eagle'' )〕 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「Delano, Wichita, Kansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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