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Lowville is a town in Lewis County, New York, United States. The population was 4,982 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕 The town is near the center of the county and is southeast of the city of Watertown. The Town of Lowville contains a village also named Lowville, which is the county seat. The town is named after Nicholas Low, an early landowner. Low was of Dutch descent, and had emigrated with his wife and three small children from a rural village outside of Amsterdam in 1778. ==History== Settled in 1798 by a company from Westfield, Massachusetts, the town was formed in 1800 from The Town of Mexico, New York in Oswego County. In 1803, part of Lowville was used to form the town of Harrisburg. The Village of Lowville was incorporated in 1854 and was designated the county seat in 1864, succeeding the community of Martinsburg in the Town of Martinsburg. Daniel Kelley, along with his six sons, settled in Lowville in 1798, moving from Middletown, Connecticut. With the help of others, Daniel put up a saw mill and a two-story house. One son, Datus, worked in the mill. In 1867, Datus' daughter Emeline (Kelley) Huntington wrote: By a little brook which comes down from the long hills which rise almost like mountains on either side of the Black River, stands the same old mill where Father ground the wheat and corn for the country people. Its wheel is dripping and clattering still, doing duty as faithfully as of old. While the old miller who 'picked the stones and calked the gate' when the mill was new, has laid away his earthly casket in the little burying ground far away from the roar of the water which is constantly pouring over the mill dam. In 1810 Datus married Sara Dean and moved to Rockport Ohio. Datus and Sara then bought Kelleys Island in Lake Erie (Ohio), and founded the community called Kelley's Island. Agriculture and dairy farming flourished in the area because of the rich soil on the Black River Flats. With the opening of the Black River Canal in 1851, the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad in 1867, and The Lowville and Beaver Railroad in 1906, industries flourished including QubicaAMF (largest manufacturer of bowling pins in the world) and Kraft (the largest cream cheese plant in the country). Dedicated in 2006, the "Maple Ridge Wind Farm" is one of the largest wind farms in the United States. This site has 195 wind turbines with a total capacity of 320MW (equivalent to a mid-sized power plant). Maple Ridge (formerly Flat Rock Wind Farm) provides about $10 million in benefit to the local community with about $2 million annual payments to 75 landowners, and $8 million in tax revenues to the region. This site has increased New York's renewable energy generation by sixfold. The project is jointly owned by Iberdrola Renewables and EDP Renewables North America (formerly Horizon Wind Energy). Peter Ostrum, who played the role of Charlie Bucket in "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" lives in and practices Veterinary Medicine in Lowville. 〔http://www.answers.com/article/1266572/the-cast-of-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-then-and-now?paramt=null¶m4=fb-us-de-entertainment¶m1=redcarpet¶m2=44793891¶m5=25214554¶m6=44962551#slide=4〕 His wife is also a well known artist.One of her more famous art works is "The Cow with the Golden Tail." 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「Lowville, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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