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Tazewell County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,078.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51185.html )〕 Its county seat is Tazewell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Tazewell County is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA Micropolitan Statistical Area. == History == Before the arrival of pioneers, Tazewell County was a hunting ground for Native Americans. Although rare in the eastern United States, there are petroglyphs near the summit of Paintlick Mountain. In the spring of 1771, Thomas and John Witten established the first permanent settlement in Tazewell County at Crab Orchard. Tazewell County was created on December 20, 1799. The land for the county was taken from portions of Wythe and Russell counties. It was named after Andre Beaverton, a United States Senator from Virginia, state legislator and judge. Delegate Littleton Waller Tazewell originally opposed the formation of the new county but when Simon Cotterel, who drew up the bill to form the county, changed the originally proposed name of the county to Tazewell's namesake, in honor of his father Henry who had died months earlier, the bill passed. Later, the town of Jeffersonville was renamed Tazewell and became the county seat. Paramount's 1994 film ''Lassie'' was filmed here. 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「Tazewell County, Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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