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Prairie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,715.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/05/05115.html )〕 The county has two county seats, Des Arc and De Valls Bluff.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Prairie County was formed on October 25, 1846, and named for the Grand Prairie of eastern Arkansas. == History == The county was at first land given to Cherokee Indian settlers from Tennessee and was formerly the Western band of Cherokee Reservation from 1812 to 1836. Today, an estimated 2,000 residents have some degree of American Indian ancestry. The town of Fredonia (Biscoe) was named for the failed movement for a Republic of Fredonia by Arkansas Cherokee and American Texan settlers in Mexican Texas in 1826. Another town, De Valls Bluff, had the tribal seat office, and is now one of the county seats. Prairie County suffered much from the Civil War. Des Arc was partly destroyed, and a historian estimated that there were not more than 15 horses left in the county when the war was over.〔''Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas'', (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1890).〕 On September 5, 1913, Lee Simms became the first person in Arkansas to be executed by use of the electric chair. He was executed for the offense of rape. Stern's Medlar, a previously unknown plant species, was discovered in Prairie County in 1990, and is not known to grow anywhere else. It is critically endangered, with only 25 known specimens, all growing within a single small wood, now protected as the Konecny Grove Natural Area. 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「Prairie County, Arkansas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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