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Richmond is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Kentucky, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 It is named after Richmond, Virginia, and is the home of Eastern Kentucky University. The population was 32,550 in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕 Richmond is the third-largest city in the Bluegrass region (after Louisville and Lexington), the state's seventh-largest city (after Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, Owensboro, Covington, and Hopkinsville), and the largest city between Lexington and Knoxville located along Interstate 75. Richmond serves as the center for work and shopping for south-central Kentucky. Richmond is the principal city of the Richmond–Berea Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Madison and Rockcastle counties. ==History== The City of Richmond was founded in 1798 by Colonel John Miller from Virginia, a British American who had served with the rebels in the Revolutionary War. According to tradition, Miller was attracted to the area by the good spring water and friendly Native Americans. That year, the Kentucky legislature approved moving the county seat from Milford to land owned by Colonel Miller. The residents of Milford adamantly opposed the move, which led to a fist fight between Dave Kennedy (representing Milford) and William Kearly (representing Richmond). The county approved the move in March 1798. On July 4, 1798, the new town was named Richmond in honor of Miller's Virginia birthplace.〔(Chamber of Commerce website ), "City History", retrieved August 28, 2009.〕 Richmond was incorporated in 1809. Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War and stayed in the Union. On August 30, 1862, during the Civil War, the Union and Confederate Armies clashed in the Battle of Richmond. Troops under Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith routed the soldiers of Union General William Nelson. Out of Nelson's 6,500 men, only 1,200 escaped; the rest were all captured.〔(The History Channel website. ) "This Day in History: August 30, 1862- The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky," retrieved August 28, 2009.〕 One historian called this battle "the nearest thing to a Cannae ever scored by any general, North or South, in the course of the whole war." 〔Foote, Shelby, ''The Civil War, A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville'', Random House, 1958, ISBN 0-394-49517-9〕 In 1906, Eastern Kentucky State Normal School was founded in Richmond to train teachers. There were eleven members of the first graduating class in 1909. By 1922 it had expanded its curriculum to a four-year program and was established as a college. It added graduate-degree programs in 1935. In recognition of its academic departments and research, in 1965 the institution was renamed as Eastern Kentucky University.〔(Eastern Kentucky University website ), "About Eastern Kentucky University", retrieved August 28, 2009〕 In the late 1990s and through the first decade of the 21st century, Richmond had a commercial and residential boom related to other development in the Bluegrass Region. As of 2009, Richmond was Kentucky's seventh-largest city, moving up four places from ranking in the 2000 census as Kentucky's eleventh-largest city.〔(US Census ), "Kentucky by Place", retrieved July 28, 2010〕 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「Richmond, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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