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Gallatin County, is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,589.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21077.html )〕 Its county seat is Warsaw.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded in 1798 and named for Albert Gallatin, the Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson.〔http://www.kyenc.org/entry/g/GALLA01.html〕 Gallatin County is included in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located along the Ohio River across from Indiana. ==History== The county was formed on December 14, 1798. Gallatin was the 31st Kentucky county to be established. It was derived from parts of Franklin and Shelby counties. Later, parts of the county were pared off to create three additional counties: Owen in 1819, Trimble in 1836 and Carroll in 1838. Today Gallatin is one tenth of its original size. Its northern border is the Ohio River. The population of Gallatin County in 1800 was 1,291, according to the Second Census of Kentucky, composed of 960 whites, 329 slaves, and 2 "freemen of color".〔http://nkaa.uky.edu/record.php?note_id=2347〕 During the Civil War, several skirmishes occurred in the county and the Union Army arrested a number of men for treason for supporting the Confederates. The 1866 Gallatin County Race Riot happened just after the Civil War, when bands of lawless Ku Klux Klansmen terrorized parts of the Bluegrass State. "A band of five hundred whites in Gallatin County... forced hundreds of blacks to flee across the Ohio River."〔Harrison, Lowell H. and James C. Klotter 1997. A New History of Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. pg. 237.〕 On December 4, 1868, two passenger steamers, the ''America'' and the ''United States'', collided on the Ohio River near Warsaw. The ''United States'' carried a cargo of barrels of kerosene, which caught fire. The flames soon spread to the ''America'', and many passengers perished by burning or drowning. The combined death toll was 162, making it one of the most deadly steamboat accidents in American history. The Lynchings of the Frenches of Warsaw of Warsaw happened on May 3, 1876. Benjamin and Mollie French, in jail at the time awaiting trial for the murder of Lake Jones, were taken by forced and hung by the local KKK.〔Wright, George C. 1990. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings". Louisiana State University Press. Baton Rouge and London. Pgs. 98-99.〕 As the 20th century progressed, commercial river trade began to decline, and the steamboat era ended, as faster means of transportation were becoming available. Rail lines expanded, automobiles and trucks became reliable, and aircraft soon arrived on the scene. Construction on the Markland Locks and Dam began in 1956 and was completed in 1964. In 1967 a hydroelectric power plant was built at the dam, which provided jobs. Gallatin County is traversed by I-71, U.S. 42, and U.S. 127. By the 1980s, more than 50 percent of the population was employed outside the county.〔("Gallatin County" ), Rootsweb〕 Marco Chapman was executed for the bloody rampage he committed on August 23, 2002 in Warsaw, Kentucky on Weldon Way, after a two-day crack binge,〔http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-09-2368989543_x.htm〕 where he murdered two children, Chelbi Sharon, 7, and Cody Sharon, 6, by slitting their throats,〔Estep, Bill. "(Killer is Executed )" Lexington Herald-Leader. Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008〕 after he had raped and stabbed their mother, Carolyn Marksberry, the city clerk of Warsaw at the time, over 15 times.〔Brief for Appellee at 1–2, Chapman v. Commonwealth, No. 2005-SC-70-MR, 2007 WL 2404429 (Ky. Aug. 23, 2007) http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ky-supreme-court/1204990.html http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/Skaff_Article.pdf〕 10-year-old Courtney Sharon played dead after she had also been stabbed by Chapman several times, and escaped.〔Mark Pitsch. ''Two Gallatin Children Killed in Knife Attack; Mom, Sister Hurt; Suspect Arrested in West Virginia.'' August 24, 2002. Courier-Journal. Louisville, Ky.〕 Thirty-seven-year-old Marco Allen Chapman was executed on November 21, 2008 at 8:34 p.m. EST on a Friday by lethal injection in a special chamber at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky. Marco Allen Chapman was the last person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.〔http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f11aa655-ca18-443e-971b-6f575e87a87f〕 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「Gallatin County, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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