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Newport is a home rule-class city〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform )〕 at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers in Campbell County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 15,273 at the 2010 census. Historically, it was one of four county seats of Campbell County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Newport is part of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area, which includes over 2 million inhabitants. ==History== Newport was settled by James Taylor Jr. on land purchased by his father James Sr. from George Muse, who received it as a grant. It was not named for its position on the river but for Christopher Newport, the commander of the first ship to reach Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.〔 Newport was established as a town on December 14, 1795, and incorporated as a city on February 24, 1834.〔Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "(Newport, Kentucky )". Accessed 4 September 2013.〕 In 1803, the Ft. Washington military post was moved from Cincinnati to become the Newport Barracks. A bridge first connected Newport to Covington in 1853, and the first bridge spanning the Ohio River to Cincinnati, the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, opened in 1866. Newport experienced large German immigration in the 1880-90s. By 1900, Newport was the third largest city in Kentucky, after Covington and Louisville, although Newport and Covington were rightly considered satellites of Cincinnati. Newport once had the reputation of "Sin City" due to its upscale gambling casinos on Monmouth street. Monmouth also had many men's stores, nice restaurants, and ice cream parlors.〔 Investigations for racketeering pushed out the casinos, which were replaced by peep shows and adult strip clubs.〔 Many of the old businesses disappeared when parking became difficult on Monmouth Street and the commercial district opened on the hill of south Newport.〔 A garage at 938 John Street manufacturing illegal fireworks exploded without warning in 1981, leaving severe damage up to a six-block radius.〔(Newport Fire/EMS History Timeline ) City of Newport. Retrieved 2013-03-11.〕 In the 1980s and 1990s, Newport made plans to develop its riverfront and core to focus primarily on "family friendly" tourism, instead of the "Sin City" tourism of the past. In May 1999 the $40-million Newport Aquarium opened, and the historic Posey Flats apartments were leveled in favor of the Newport on the Levee entertainment complex, which opened the following year. In 1997 plans were announced for a structure called the "Millennium Tower" were revealed.〔 〕 The tower's main selling point was that building it would be financed by private money, as opposed to taxpayer money.〔 The tower was expected to be completed by 2003,〔 〕 but investors later pulled out and no construction was done. Today the site for the tower is a parking lot next to the World Peace Bell. Today, Newport is becoming the entertainment community of the fast-growing Northern Kentucky area while its neighboring cities--Bellevue and Covington—become the business centers. 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「Newport, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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