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Moline is a city in Elk County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 371.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table )〕 Moline is located in south central Elk County at the intersection of U.S. Highway 160 and Kansas Highway 99. Moline is well known for being the home of Kansas' oldest swinging (suspension-type) bridge, built in 1904.〔http://kansastravel.org/molineswingingbridge.htm〕 The bridge spans over a lower portion of a local stream, Wildcat Creek. Immediately to the west of the famous Swinging Bridge, a limestone water fall formation flows with water through much of the rainy season in late winter and early spring.〔http://www.skyways.org/kansas/towns/Moline/index.html〕 ==History== Moline is located on a slightly elevated plateau in the valley of Wildcat Creek, named so by the indigenous Native Americans because of the prominent number of wildcats (Bobcats) that lived along the stream. In early 1879 as the Santa Fe Railway extended westward from Independence, Missouri, towns sprung up vigorously along the line.〔Mann, Henrietta. ''A Brief Historical Sketch of the Settlements of Elk County'' (Pittsburg: Master's Thesis, Kansas State Teachers College, 1940).〕 The Land and Town Company chartered the land for the city on July 21, 1879 and laid out the town.〔 *Rydjord, John (1972). Kansas Place-Names. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. p. 282. ISBN 0-8061-0994-7.〕 The name Moline was decided upon at the suggestion of Mr. J.F. Chapman, of the original town company, who came from the area of Moline, Illinois, and because the farmers in the area largely used the Moline plow.〔"Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society: 1901-1902, Together with Addresses at Annual Meetings, Memorials, and Miscellaneous Papers." Vol. VII, Topeka: W.Y. Morgan, State Printer 1902.〕 The first post office in Moline was established in September, 1879.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) )〕 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「Moline, Kansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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