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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Grafton, West Virginia ： ウィキペディア英語版 Grafton, West Virginia Grafton is a city in and the county seat of Taylor County, West Virginia, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 5,164 at the 2010 census. Both of West Virginia's national cemeteries are located in Grafton. Mother's Day was founded in Grafton on May 10, 1908; the city is the home to the International Mother's Day Shrine.〔(nps.gov: "National Register of Historic Places - Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church" )〕 Grafton was one of the first places to observe Memorial Day in the United States.〔 Grafton was a junction point for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; the southwestern line wends its way to Clarksburg while the northwestern line runs through Fairmont then to Morgantown; to the East lies Piedmont and on to Cumberland; lines to the south reached Elkins and Charleston, as well as numerous coal branches. ==History== The settlement of Grafton was part of a rapid movement west to the new frontier in the early to mid 1700's. The Current Family, one of Grafton's first residents, were late seventeenth-century Irish immigrants who entered the continent by the way of Maryland. When James Current traded a horse for 1300 acres of virgin land in Virginia it was situated where the City of Grafton, West Virginia is today. In 1751, he hired George Washington to first act was to stake his property.〔(graftonwv.com: "ABOUT GRAFTON" )〕 James Current and his wife Margaret are buried in Bluemont Cemetery; his is the only Revolutionary War soldier grave in Grafton.〔 Grafton is near what may be called the headwaters of the Monongahela River, which now form in the lee of the Tygart Valley Dam. The Tygart Valley was first settled by Europeans in 1753 when David Tygart (for whom the valley and river are named) with his family. In 1835, John Blue purchased 300 acres from the Current family and shortly thereafter the are called "Bridge Valley" (present day Fetterman) began to grow. The B&O Railroad arrived in 1852 during the construction of the nation's first trans-Appalachian railroad. By 1853, Grafton had emerged as a railroad town with several residences and stores catered to the development of the railroad. As the railroad facilities were being built, land was surveyed for the new town which was chartered March 15, 1856 in the Virginia General Assembly.〔http://www.graftonwv.org/aboutgrafton.html〕 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「Grafton, West Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.