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Russellville is a home rule-class city〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform )〕 in Logan County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 6,947 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census. ==History== Local historian Alex Finley claimed the area was first settled by Gasper Butcher , but others have questioned this.〔 Although the area is known to have been called Big Boiling Spring, Gasper Butcher's Spring, and Butcher's Station, W.R. Jillson was unable to find written records of habitation before William Cook and his wife erected Cook's Cabin with eighteen-year-old William Stewart in 1790.〔〔''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'', (p. 790 ). "Russellville". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1992. Accessed 4 October 2013.〕 Also known as Cook's Station, the community located about east of the present city〔 became Logan Court House when it was chosen to be the seat of the newly formed Logan County in 1792. Logan Court House moved west to its present location when it was laid off in 1795 on part of Gen. William Russell's grant for his military service during the American Revolution. The town was renamed in his honor in 1798〔Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', (p. 259 ). University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 4 October 2013.〕 and formally established by the state legislature on January 15, 1810.〔 It was incorporated as a city on February 19, 1840.〔 In the early 19th century, the community was politically prominent and four homes in the city still stand which housed future governors of Kentucky: John Breathitt, James Morehead, John J. Crittenden, and Charles S. Morehead.〔 During the Civil War, the Kentucky General Assembly declared its neutrality and declined to secede with the rest of the South, despite being a slave state. In 1862, 116 sympathizers of the rebellion from 43 counties met as the Russellville Convention and created a separate Confederate government for Kentucky.〔 George W. Johnson was elected as the state's governor. Despite ''de facto'' Union control over Kentucky, this shadow government was recognized and admitted by the Confederacy, the source of the thirteenth star on the Confederate flag. After the war, Kentucky struggled with insurrections. A gang made up of the former Confederate guerrillas Cole Younger, George Shepard, and Oliver Shepard, along with Confederate veterans John Jarrett and Arthur McCoy, robbed the Nimrod Long Bank〔 or the Southern Deposit Bank in Russellville on March 20, 1868. The brothers Frank and Jesse James, who later led their own gang, may have participated in peripheral roles. Today a Russellville bank on the city square has a large mural depicting the robbery. A reenactment of the robbery (called a "play on horseback") is performed annually during the city's Tobacco and Heritage Festival. Several downtown homes have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 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「Russellville, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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