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Roane County is a county of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 54,181.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/47145.html )〕 Its county seat is Kingston.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Roane County is included in the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Roane County was formed in 1801, and named for Archibald Roane, the second Governor of Tennessee.〔 Upon the creation of the Southwest Territory in 1790, the territory's governor, William Blount, initially wanted to locate the territorial capital at the mouth of the Clinch River, but was unable to obtain title to the land from the Cherokee. Kingston, Roane's county seat, is rooted in Fort Southwest Point, a frontier fort constructed in the early 1790s.〔 During the Civil War, Roane County, like many East Tennessee counties, was largely pro-Union. When Tennessee voted on the Ordinance of Secession on June 8, 1861, Roane Countians voted 1,568 to 454 in favor of remaining in the Union.〔Oliver Perry Temple, ''(East Tennessee and the Civil War )'' (R. Clarke Company, 1899), p. 199.〕 In October 1861, Union guerrilla William B. Carter organized the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy from a command post in Kingston.〔David Madden, "Unionist Resistance to Confederate Occupation: The Bridge Burners of East Tennessee," East Tennessee Historical Society Publications, Vols. 52-53 (1980-1981), pp. 22-40.〕 During the Knoxville Campaign in December 1863, a Union force led by General James G. Spears scattered a small Confederate force led by John R. Hart near Kingston.〔Earl J. Hess, ''(The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee )'' (University of Tennessee Press, 2012), p. 198.〕 In the years following the Civil War, Rockwood grew into a major iron and coal mining center with the establishment of the Roane Iron Company by General John T. Wilder. Iron ore and coal were mined on Walden Ridge and shipped to Rockwood, where the ore was converted into pig iron. The pig iron was then shipped to rolling mills in Knoxville or Chattanooga.〔 During the late 19th century, northern investors established two planned cities in Roane County— Cardiff and Harriman. Cardiff, located northeast of Rockwood, was planned as a company town to support several proposed mining industries in the area. Harriman was planned as a Temperance Town. Both ventures suffered critical setbacks as a result of the Panic of 1893. Harriman survived, but never grew in the manner its planners had envisioned, while Cardiff failed altogether.〔John Benhart, ''Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 5-10.〕 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「Roane County, Tennessee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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