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The Seligman Commercial Historic District is a historic district in central Seligman, Yavapai County, northwestern Arizona.〔( NPS.gov: Seligman Historic District − Route 66 ); accessed 31 August 2015.〕 The historic district is along historic Route 66 in town, which was designated a historic highway by the state of Arizona in 1978.〔(Seligmanazhistoricdistrict.com: The Seligman Historic District )〕 The Seligman Commercial Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.〔 ==History== The region was in the longtime homeland of the Havasupai people, who had a settlement in the present day Seligman area. Originally Seligman was called “Prescott Junction” because it was the railroad stop on the Santa Fe mainline junction with the Prescott and Arizona Central Railway Company feeder line running to Prescott, in the Arizona Territory.〔(Seligmanhistory.com; History of Seligman, Arizona )〕 The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad had reached it in 1882.〔 In 1886 it was renamed Seligman, after Jesse Seligman, one of the founders of J.W. Seligman Co. of New York, who helped finance the railroad lines in the area.〔 The original feeder line to Prescott was replaced in 1891 by the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway with the Santa Fe mainline junction at Ash Fork instead. Because of its flat land Seligman became a large switching yard consisting of many tracks, and served as a large livestock shipping center for the areas ranchers.〔 It was also a terminal point for changing train crews between Winslow and Needles, who used overnight cottages in the town.〔(Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives.org: "A day trip to Seligman on the Williamson Valley Road" )〕 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「Seligman Commercial Historic District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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