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Boone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 118,811,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21015.html )〕 making it the fourth-most populous county in Kentucky. Its county seat is Burlington.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed in 1798 from land given by Campbell County. and was named for frontiersman Daniel Boone. Boone County is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the location of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which serves Cincinnati and the tri-state area and was the former headquarters of Comair. ==History== Native Americans left a large late historic village in Petersburg that contained "at least two periods of habitation dating to 1150 A.D. and 1400 A.D."〔http://www.boonecountyky.org/History.aspx〕 An unnamed Frenchman in 1729 drew an area on his chart where Big Bone Lick State Park in modern-day Boone County exists with a French inscription that translates to "where they found the bones of an elephant."〔 Later on, another Frenchman, Captain Charles le Moyne de Longueil (1687–1755) would be credited with investigating the Big Bone Lick area.〔 Boone County was founded in 1798, and named after Daniel Boone. On January 28, 1856, Robert and a pregnant Margaret "Peggy" Garner, together with family members, escaped and fled to Cincinnati, Ohio, along with several other slave families. Seventeen people were reported to have been in their party. In the coldest winter in 60 years, the Ohio River had frozen. The group crossed the ice just west of Covington, Kentucky at daybreak, and escaped to Cincinnati, then divided to avoid detection. They set out for Joseph Kite's house in Cincinnati.〔http://www.blackpast.org/aah/margaret-garner-incident-1856#sthash.74IRbsjy.dpuf〕 Margaret Garner would become famous for slitting her own daughter's throat (Mary) to prevent her from going back into slavery when Archibald K. Gaines and his posse, along with Federal Marshals, caught up to the fleeing slaves at Joseph Kite's house.〔 Margaret Garner was first owned by, and may have been the daughter of, the plantation owner John Pollard Gaines himself.〔(Steven Weisenburger, "A Historical Margaret Garner" ), Michigan Opera Theatre, accessed 20 Apr 2009〕 In December 1849, the plantation was sold along with all the slaves to John P. Gaines' younger brother, Archibald K. Gaines.〔 The Gaines family lived on a farm called Maplewood in Boone County, Kentucky, just west of Richwood Presbyterian Church, of which Archibald K. Gaines was a member.〔http://www.nkyviews.com/boone/boone_richwood.htm〕 3 of Margaret Garner's children, including Mary, the daughter whose throat Margaret Garner slashed, were likely the children of Archibald K. Gaines, the only adult white male at Maplewood. The timing suggests they were each conceived after his wife had become pregnant and was unavailable to him.〔(Steven Weisenburger, "A Historical Margaret Garner" ), Michigan Opera Theatre, accessed 20 Apr 2009. "Bertram Wyatt-Brown reminds us, Southern men commonly referred to their pregnant wives' last trimester or so when they were sexually unavailable as "the gander months" because it was supposedly natural, and to some extent informally countenanced, for them to seek intimate "comfort" with unmarried women or with enslaved women, if they owned any."〕 Margaret Garner's story was the inspiration for the novel ''Beloved'' (1987) by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison (that later was adapted into a film of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey), as well as for her libretto for the early 21st century opera ''Margaret Garner'' (2005), composed by Richard Danielpour. 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「Boone County, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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