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Pendleton County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,695,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/54/54071.html )〕 making it the fifth-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Franklin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788〔http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Pendleton/penhistory.html〕 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pendleton County )〕 Pendleton County was strongly pro-Confederate during the American Civil War, however there were pockets of Union support.〔Pendleton County History, Dr. Robert Jay Dilger, Director, Institute for Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University. http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Pendleton/penhistory.html〕 Spruce Knob, located in Pendleton County, is the highest point in the state and in the Alleghenies, its elevation being 4,863 feet. Parts of the Monongahela and George Washington National Forests are also located in Pendleton. ==History== By the 1740s, the three main valleys of what became Pendleton County had been visited and named by white hunters and prospectors. One of the hunters, a single man named Abraham Burner, built himself a log cabin about a half mile downstream of the future site of Brandywine in 1745. He was the county's first white settler. A local historian recorded that: The site ...() on the left bank of the river, and near the beginning of a long, eastward bend. From almost at his very door his huntsman's eye was at times gladdened by seeing perhaps fifty deer either drinking from the steam or plunging in their heads up to their ears in search of moss.〔Morton, Oren F. (1910), ''A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia'', Franklin, West Virginia. Reprint (1974) by Regional Publishing Company, Baltimore, pp 31-32.〕By 1747, immigrants were impinging on the (future) borders of Pendleton from two directions: the larger community was mostly Germans moving up the valley of the South Branch Potomac; the lesser consisted mainly of Scotch-Irish moving northwest from Staunton up into the headwaters of the James River. In an April 1758 surprise raid of Fort Seybert and nearby Fort Upper Tract occasioned by the French and Indian War (1754–63), most of the 60 white settlers sheltering there were massacred by Shawnee and Delaware warriors and the forts were burned. Pendleton County was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist. Pendleton County was split between Northern and Southern sympathies during the American Civil War. The northern section of the county, including the enclave in the Smoke Hole community were staunchly Unionist. In June 1863, the county was included by the federal government in the new state of West Virginia against many of the inhabitants' wishes. In fall 1863, Union Brigadier General W.W. Averell swept up the South Branch valley and destroyed the Confederate saltpetre works above Franklin.〔West Virginia Writers Project (1940), ''Smoke Hole and Its People: A Social-Ethnic Study''; Charleston, West Virginia: State Department of Education; Reprinted (pp 101-132) in: Shreve, D. Bardon (2005), ''Sheriff from Smoke Hole (and Other Smoke Hole Stories)'', Fredericksburg, Virginia: The Fredricksburg Press, Inc, pg 118.〕 At Franklin, the Pendleton County seat, the South Branch of the Potomac River crested at 22.6 feet during the 1985 Election day floods. Flood stage in the shallow riverbed was only 7 feet.〔West Virginia Gazette: "Remembering the '85 floods" (D. White) 4 Nov 2010〕 Most of the 47 people killed in this incident were in Pendleton and Grant counties, according to the National Weather Service.〔 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「Pendleton County, West Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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