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Frontenac is the second largest city in Crawford County, southeastern Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,437.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table )〕 ==History== Frontenac was established as a coal mining town in 1886 in the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Fields in the western Ozark Plateau.〔http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-former-mining-communities/13222 "Former Mining Communities of the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Field of Southeastern Kansas"〕〔http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/24/index.html〕〔http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1972/72_2_powell.htm〕 A post office was opened in Frontenac in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) )〕 On the night of November 9, 1888, Frontenac had the worst mining disaster in Kansas history,〔(History of Frontenac ) (City of Frontenac website)〕 when a coal dust explosion〔"Mine Disaster Victims. Further particulars of the appalling accident." ''Lima Daily Democratic Times'', November 12, 1888. Quoted in (Pittsburg, KS Mining Disaster ) — GenDisasters.net.〕 killed 44〔Nikki Patrick, ("Today is anniversary of mine disaster." ) ''Pittsburg Morning Sun'', November 9, 2008. At first it was estimated that more than 100 of the 164 miners in the shaft had been killed, but historians believe the final toll to be only 44.〕 miners. During the last decade of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century the town was populated primarily by immigrant families from eastern and southeastern Europe, predominantly Sicilian, Italian, and Italian and Slavic people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its maximum population neared 4,000. It housed various ethnic lodges and drinking parlors despite the state's increasingly severe ban on the distribution, sale, and manufacture of alcoholic beverages. Coal mining remained the town's occupational base until World War II, when its economy began to change, as did the entire region's. 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「Frontenac, Kansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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