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Gulfport is the second largest city in Mississippi after the state capital Jackson. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area,〔Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area〕 which is included in the Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, Mississippi Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the city of Gulfport had a total population of 67,793. Gulfport is co-county seat with Biloxi of Harrison County, Mississippi. Gulfport is also home to the US Navy Atlantic Fleet Seabees.〔http://www.seabee.navy.mil/〕 ==History== An early settlement near this location, known as Mississippi City, appeared on a map of Mississippi from 1855.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = United States Coast Survey )〕 Mississippi City was the county seat of Harrison County from 1841 to 1902, but is now a suburb in east Gulfport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Loblolly Writer's House Site )〕 Gulfport was incorporated on July 28, 1898. Gulfport was founded by two men: William H. Hardy〔http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m380.htm〕 who was president of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (G&SIRR) that connected inland lumber mills to the coast, and Joseph T. Jones who later took over the G&SIRR, dredged the harbor in Gulfport, and opened the shipping channel to the sea. In 1902, the harbor was completed and the Port of Gulfport became a working seaport that now accounts for millions of dollars in annual sales and tax revenue for the state of Mississippi. In 1910, the U.S. Post Office and Customhouse was built. The Gulfport Post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.〔http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html〕 In March 1916, Mayor George M. Foote announced that the Andrew Carnegie Corporation was going to place a Carnegie Library〔http://www.harrison.lib.ms.us/history/history_outline.htm#1890〕 in Gulfport. On August 17, 1969 Gulfport and the Mississippi Gulf Coast was hit by Hurricane Camille. By central pressure, Camille was the second strongest U.S. land falling hurricane in recorded history. The area of total destruction in Harrison County, Mississippi was 68 square miles (180 km2).() The total estimated cost of damage was $1.42 billion (1969 USD, $9 billion 2012 USD).() This made Camille the second-most expensive hurricane in the United States, up to that point (behind Hurricane Betsy).() The storm directly killed 143 people along Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In December 1993, the City annexed north of Gulfport making it the second largest city in Mississippi. 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「Gulfport, Mississippi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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