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Goochland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,717.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51075.html )〕 Its county seat is Goochland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Goochland County is included in the Richmond, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Native Americans had lived along the waterways for several thousand years. Siouan-speaking tribes were the ones encountered by English colonists. Their numbers were sharply reduced by European infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, which caused widespread social disruption. In 1634, the colonial government organized the territory of Virginia into eight shires, to be governed as shires in England. Henrico was one of these shires.〔Agee, Helene. ''Facets of Goochland County's History,'' Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1962〕 Goochland was founded in 1728 as the first county formed from Henrico shire, followed by Chesterfield County in 1749. Goochland was named for Sir William Gooch, the royal lieutenant governor from 1727 to 1749, at which time the nominal governor, the Earl of Albemarle, remained in England. Goochland originally included all of the land from Tuckahoe Creek, on both sides of the James River, west as far as the Blue Ridge Mountains.〔 As the colonists moved into the Piedmont west of Richmond, they first developed tobacco plantations like those of the Tidewater. They depended on enslaved Africans for the labor-intense cultivation of the lucrative commodity crop. After the Revolution, tobacco did not yield as high profits. In Goochland, as in other areas of Virginia, many planters switched to growing wheat and mixed crops. They continued to rely heavily on the labor of slaves for the full range of plantation tasks. According to the 1860 US Census and Slave Schedules, the total population of the county was 10,656. Of that number, 57.6%, or 6139 people, were enslaved African Americans. By 1870 after the Civil War, the total population decreased slightly to 10,313, but the number of blacks rose to 6610, or 64% of the total. In later years, agricultural work decreased and more people migrated to Richmond and other towns. In the early decades of the 20th century, many blacks left Virginia in the Great Migration for better jobs and opportunities in the North. By 2000, African Americans comprised only 26% of Goochland County's population, then nearly 19,000 people. 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「Goochland County, Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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