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Knox County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 432,226,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/47093.html )〕 making it the third-most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Knoxville,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 the third-most populous city in Tennessee. Knox County is included in the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is at the geographical center of the Great Valley of East Tennessee. Near the heart of the county is the origin of the Tennessee River at the union of the Holston and French Broad rivers. ==History== Knox County was created on June 11, 1792, by Governor William Blount from parts of Greene and Hawkins counties, one of the few counties created when the state was still known as the Southwest Territory.〔 It is one of nine United States counties named for American Revolutionary War general and first United States Secretary of War Henry Knox. Parts of Knox County later became Blount (1795), Anderson (1801), Roane (1801), and Union (1850) counties. In 1783, an expedition into the Upper Tennessee Valley led by James White and Francis Alexander Ramsey explored what is now Knox County. White moved to what is now the Riverdale community in the eastern part of the county in 1785, and the following year constructed a fort a few miles to the west that would evolve into the city of Knoxville. Blount chose the fort as the capital of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and gave the new town the name "Knoxville" after his superior, Henry Knox.〔Stanley Folmsbee and Lucile Deaderick, "The Founding of Knoxville," East Tennessee Historical Society ''Publications'', Vol. 13 (1941), pp. 3-20.〕 Blount began construction of his house, Blount Mansion, in the early 1790s. The house still stands in downtown Knoxville. The Alexander McMillan House, built in the mid-1780s by Alexander McMillan (1749–1837), still stands in eastern Knox County. The Alexander Bishop House, built by Stockley Donelson in 1793,〔(The Wonderful 18th Century House of Alexander Bishop ). "Ask Doc Knox," ''Metro Pulse'', 9 August 2010. Accessed at the Internet Archive, 2 October 2015.〕 and a log house built in the same year by Nicholas Gibbs, both still stand in the northern part of the county.〔(Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society website ). Retrieved: 18 October 2013.〕 Campbell's Station, a fort and stagecoach stop located in what is now Farragut, was built by Captain David Campbell (1753–1832) in 1787.〔Doris Woods Owen, Kate Clabough, ''(Concord-Farragut )'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2009), p. 32.〕 John Sevier established a plantation, known as Marble Springs, in the southern part of the county in the 1790s.〔Carroll Van West, "(Marble Springs )." ''The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2002.'' Retrieved: 4 April 2008.〕 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「Knox County, Tennessee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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