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Plain Dealing is a town in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,015 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Prior to 1839, the United States government forcibly removed the Caddo Nation of Native Americans -- longtime local inhabitants who had first settled the area over 1,000 years before Europeans' 16th-century arrival in mainland North America -- from the area of Northern Louisiana that included the parcel that would later become the town of Plain Dealing.〔()〕 In 1839, George Oglethorpe Gilmer and his son, James Blair Gilmer, bought 5,000 acres of this land -- now described as a "vast, unsettled wilderness" -- from the United States government, calling a portion of this acreage "Plain Dealing" after the family's Virginia plantation.〔()〕〔: http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/2157/PDHistory.html&date=2009-10-25+23:48:34〕 The "Plain Dealing" name became official when the town was formally chartered on April 24, 1890.〔()〕 Notable points of more recent history include the following: * Plain Dealing recorded the state's hottest temperature ever, , on August 10, 1936. * The ''Plain Dealing Post'' newspaper was established in the 1980s by publisher Danny D. Scott of nearby Springhill. * The Bossier Parish minimum security prison is located in Plain Dealing. 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「Plain Dealing, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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