| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Independence High School (Kansas) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Independence, Kansas
Independence is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Kansas, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 As of the 2010 census, the city population was 9,483.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table )〕 It was named in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence.
==History==
Independence was settled on land that was purchased from the Osage Indians in September 1869 by George A. Brown for the price of $50; they were being moved to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. He originally called the townsite Colfax after Schuyler Colfax, Vice-president under President Ulysses S. Grant. On August 21, 1869 a group of Oswego, Kansas men led by R.W. Wright settled there with the intent to make Independence the county seat.〔Sherwood, Leon (1970). ''Official Centennial History of Independence, KS'', p. 6. Independence Centennial Inc.〕 E.E. Wilson and F.D. Irwin opened the first store in October 1869, Wilson & Irwin Groceries.〔Sherwood, Leon (1970). ''Official Centennial History of Independence, KS'', p. 7. Independence Centennial Inc.〕 Independence was designated county seat in 1870.
The first night game in the history of professional baseball was played in Independence on April 28, 1930 when the Muscogee (Oklahoma) Indians beat the Independence Producers 13 to 3 in a minor-league game sanctioned by the Western League of the Western Baseball Association with 1,500 fans attending the game. The permanent lighting system was first used for an exhibition game on April 17, 1930 between the Independence Producers and House of David semi-professional baseball team of Benton Harbor, Michigan, with the Independence team winning with a score of 9 to 1 before a crowd of 1,700 spectators.
Miss Able, a rhesus monkey, was born at Ralph Mitchell Zoo. Miss Able along with Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, became the first monkeys to fly in space; they returned alive on May 28, 1959.〔()〕
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「Independence, Kansas」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.
|
|