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Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 62,450.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/39/39087.html )〕 Its county seat is Ironton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created in 1815 and later organized in 1817. It is named for James Lawrence, the naval officer famous for the line "do not give up the ship". Lawrence County is part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY Combined Statistical Area. ==History== The earliest settlers, Luke Kelly, his family and May Keyser, settled at Hanging Rock, along the Ohio River in 1796. Lawrence County was formed on December 20, 1816 from parts of Gallia and Scioto Counties, with the county seat being at Burlington. In 1851 the county seat was moved from Burlington to Ironton. A new court House was built at that time but it burned in 1857. The present Lawrence County Courthouse was built in 1908. Citizens from Lawrence County served in the Mexican-American War with at least one having died during that conflict. About 3200 of Lawrence County's men were soldiers in the Union Army by 1862 in the American Civil War.〔''Ironton Register'', October 9, 1862〕 World War I saw 2200 of Lawrence County's men serving the U.S.A. of which 99 died. When first settled, Lawrence County was rich in natural resources such as iron, timber, coal, natural gas, oil, and salt. By the beginning of the twentieth century, many of these had been depleted. 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「Lawrence County, Ohio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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