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Love County is a county located on the southern border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,423.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/40/40085.html )〕 Its county seat is Marietta.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created at statehood in 1907 and named for Overton Love, a prominent Chickasaw farmer, entrepreneur and politician.〔( Susan L. Webb, and Sandra L. Thomas. "Love County," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'' ). 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015.〕 Love County is part of the Ardmore, OK Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is also a part of the Texoma region. ==History== The Louisiana Purchase, effected in 1803, included all of the present state of Oklahoma except the Panhandle. Explorers and traders began travelling extensively through the area, intending to find trade routes to Santa Fe. The Quapaw were the principal native Americans living south of the Canadian River. The Quapaws ceded their land to the American government in 1818, and were replaced by the Choctaws in the early 1830s. The Chickasaws were assigned land in the middle of Choctaw territory during 1837-8.〔 Overton Love was one of the earliest Chickasaws who settled in present-day Love County. He was twenty years old when he arrived in Indian Territory from Mississippi in 1843. His settlement became known as Love's Valley (about east of the present town of Marietta). He later became one of the largest Chickasaw landowners and cattle raisers in the area, working of Red River Bottomland.. Eventually, he became a member of both houses of the Chickasaw National Council, a county and district judge, and a member of the Dawes Commission.〔 Prior to statehood, the area now known as Love County was part of Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. It had three incorporated towns: Marietta (the county seat, founded in 1887), Leon (established 1883) and Thackerville (established 1882). It also contained two unincorporated postal areas: Burneyville (post office established 1879) and Overbrook (post office established 1887).〔 The settlement of Courtney at the mouth of Mud Creek was settled ca. 1872 by Henry D. Courtney. 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「Love County, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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