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Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 54,151.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51089.html )〕 The county seat is usually identified as Martinsville;〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 however, the administration building (where county offices are located and where the board of supervisors holds meetings) and county courthouse are located in Collinsville. Henry County is part of the Martinsville, VA Micropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== The county was established in 1777 when it was carved from Pittsylvania County. The new county was initially named Patrick Henry County in honor of Patrick Henry, who was then serving as the first Governor of Virginia after independence. Living on his plantation called ''Leatherwood'' (for Leatherwood Creek), Gov. Henry was a sometime resident of the county, where he had relatives already settled.〔(Places Associated with Patrick Henry, virginiaplaces.org )〕〔(National Register of Historic Places Form, dhr.virginia.gov )〕〔(History, Martinsville and Henry County, Virginia, martinsville.com )〕 In 1785 the northern part of Patrick Henry County was combined with part of Bedford County to form Franklin County. In 1790, Patrick Henry County was split into two counties, the western part becoming Patrick County and the rest becoming Henry County. Other notable early settlers of Henry County include Colonel George Waller,〔A native of Stafford County, Virginia, George Waller lived on his plantation at what was once known as Waller's Ford, today's Fieldale. He was married to Ann Winston (Carr) Waller, first cousin of Patrick Henry. Col. Waller's wife's sister was married to Col. Mordecai Hord. () Col. George Waller's daughter, Mary Winston Carr Waller, married Major John Redd of the Continental Army.〕 Captain George Hairston and Major John Redd,〔(General Joseph Martin, by John Redd, Publications of the Southern History Association, Vol. VII, No. 1, January 1903, Washington, D.C. )〕 all of whom were present at the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown; Col. Abraham Penn, a native of Amherst County, Virginia, who led his Henry County militia troops with the intention of joining General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War;〔(Lord Dunmore's Little War of 1774, Warren Skidmore, Donna Kaminsky, Heritage Books, 2002 )〕 and Brigadier General Joseph Martin, for whom Martinsville is named.〔(Henry County, The Carolina Road, virginia.org )〕 Also prominent were Mordecai Hord, a native of Louisa County and prominent early explorer, who lived on his plantation called ''Hordsville'';〔(Thomas Hord, Gentleman, Arnold Harris Hord, Thomas Hord, Philadelphia, 1903 )〕 and Col. John Dillard, born in Amherst County, Virginia in 1751, wounded at the Battle of Princeton during the Revolution, and later a member of the Committee of Safety and a colonel in the Virginia forces. In 1902, the Henry County Historical Society was incorporated at Martinsville with its first officers being John W. Carter, J. Harrison Spencer and C. B. Bryant.〔(Acts and Joint Resolutions , Passed by the General Assembly, of the State of Virginia, During the Session of 1901–2, J. H. O'Hannon, Superintendent of Public Printing, Richmond, 1902 )〕 Henry County was part of the furniture manufacturing complex of western North Carolina prior to the advent of free trade agreements which made import of furniture manufactured in low-wage Asian markets much more profitable. 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「Henry County, Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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