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Cocke County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 35,662.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/47029.html )〕 Its county seat is Newport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Cocke County comprises the Newport, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville, TN Combined Statistical Area.〔Office of Management and Budget, (Update of Statistical Area Definitions and Guidance on Their Uses ), December 5, 2005〕 ==History== Before the arrival of European settlers, the area that is now Cocke County probably was inhabited by Cherokees. The first recorded European settlement in the county was in 1783 when land near the fork of the French Broad and the Pigeon Rivers was cleared and cultivated. The earliest European settlers were primarily Scots-Irish, Dutch, and Germans who came to the area over the mountains from the Carolinas or through Virginia from Pennsylvania and other northern states. The county was established by an Act of the Tennessee General Assembly on October 9, 1797, from a part of Jefferson County, Tennessee. It was named for William Cocke, one of the state's first United States Senators. Like many East Tennessee counties, Cocke County was largely pro-Union on the eve of the Civil War. In Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession referendum on June 8, 1861, the county's residents voted 1,185 to 518 against secession.〔Oliver Perry Temple, (East Tennessee and the Civil War ) (R. Clarke Company, 1899), p. 199.〕 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「Cocke County, Tennessee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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