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Keystone is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 282 at the 2010 census. Keystone is one of several incorporated towns in West Virginia with an African-American majority, with 65 percent of the residents being black. Larry Scott Deaner wrote about the historical geography of the African-American population of Keystone in his 2004 Master's thesis. Deaner calls Keystone the cultural capital of the "Free State of McDowell" - a term coined by Matthew Thomas Whittico, a local newspaper editor and community leader from Keystone in the early 20th century. Keystone possessed a unique combination of political, social, and economic characteristics that made it an attractive place for African-Americans to migrate to in the late 1800s and early 1900s.〔Deaner, Larry Scott (2004). ''Home in the McDowell County Coalfields: The African-American Population of Keystone, West Virginia'' (M.A., Geography thesis). Ohio University.〕 Keystone was founded in 1892 by the Keystone Coal & Coke Company. Keystone was then incorporated in 1909 by the Circuit Court of McDowell County. Its name is derived from the name of a coal and coke company operating at that point. The town was formerly known as Cassville. Denise Giardina modeled the fictional town of Annadel in her novel ''Storming Heaven'' after Keystone.〔C. Stuart McGehee (2010). "Keystone". e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclpedia. http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1200〕 ==Geography== Keystone is located at (37.415119, −81.446082). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt )〕 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「Keystone, West Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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