|
Vincennes is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Indiana, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 It is located on the lower Wabash River in the southwestern part of the state, nearly halfway between Evansville and Terre Haute. Founded in 1732 by French fur traders, Vincennes is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in Indiana and one of the oldest settlements west of the Appalachians. According to the 2010 census, its population was 18,423, a decrease of 1.5% from 18,701 in 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vincennes (city), Indiana – QuickFacts )〕 ==History== The vicinity of Vincennes was inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous peoples. During the Late Woodland period, some of these peoples used local loess hills as burial sites; some of the more prominent examples are the Sugar Loaf Mound and the Pyramid Mound.〔Stafford, C. Russell. "The Geomorphology of Sugar Loaf Mound: Prehistoric Cemeteries and the Formation of Loess Cones in the Lower Wabash Valley," ''Geoarchaeology: An International Journal'' 13.7 (1998): 649–672.〕 In historic times, prominent local native groups were the Shawnee, Wabash, and the Miami tribe. The first European settlers were Canadiens, when Vincennes was founded as part of the French colony of Canada. Later on, it would be transferred to the colony of Louisiana. Several years later, France lost the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years' War), and as result ceded territory east of the Mississippi River, including Vincennes, to the victorious British. The area was under British rule, associated with the Province of Quebec, until after the American Revolution. It then became part of the Illinois Country of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia. Next it became part of Knox County in the Northwest Territory, and it was later included in the Indiana Territory. Vincennes served as capital of the Indiana Territory from 1800 until 1813, when the government was moved to Corydon. 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「Vincennes, Indiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|