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King and Queen County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula and is included in the Richmond, VA metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 6,945.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51097.html )〕 Its county seat is King and Queen Court House.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 == History == King and Queen County was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for King William III and Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in the United States of America to have recorded a larger population in the 1790 census than in the 2000 one. Among the earliest settlers of King and Queen County was Roger Shackelford, an emigrant from Old Alresford, Hampshire, England, after which the village of Shacklefords, Virginia, in King and Queen County is named. Shackelford's descendants continued to live in the county, and by the nineteenth century had intermarried with the Taliaferro, Beverley, Thornton and Sears families, among others.〔(King and Queen County, Virginia, Alfred Bagby, The Neale Publishing Company, New York, Washington, D. C., 1908 )〕 On March 2, 1864, the Battle of Walkerton, an engagement of the American Civil War took place here, resulting in a Confederate victory. For many years, county publications noted that the county lacked any traffic lights. This is now no longer the case, as a traffic light has been installed on U.S. Route 360 at St. Stephen's Church. The county contains no incorporated towns and is among the more rustic of the counties of Virginia. 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「King and Queen County, Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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