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Terrell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,315.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13/13273.html )〕 The county seat is Dawson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Terrell County is included in the Albany, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Formed from portions of Randolph and Lee counties on February 16, 1856, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, Terrell County is named for Dr. William Terrell (1778–1855) of Sparta, Georgia, who served in the Georgia General Assembly and the United States House of Representatives. During the American Civil War, after Atlanta's capture by Union forces, a refugee settlement was established in Terrell County for civilians forced to flee the city. The ''Fosterville'' settlement, named after Georgia Quartermaster General Ira Roe Foster, was according to author Mary Elizabeth Massey, the ''most ambitious refugee project approved by the Georgia General Assembly'' (that period ). On March 11, 1865, the Georgia General Assembly authorized General Foster to ''continue to provide for maintenance of said exiles, or such of them as are unable by their labor to support themselves, or their families for the balance of the present year.''〔 In September 1962, an African American church was burned down after it was used for voter registration meetings.〔http://crdl.usg.edu/export/html/ugabma/walb/crdl_ugabma_walb_walb00067.html?Welcome〕 Prathia Hall delivered a speech at the site of the ruins in September 1962, in which she used the repeated phrase "I have a dream". Martin Luther King is said to have built on it.〔Holsaert, Faith et al. ''Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC''. University of Illinois Press, 2010, p. 180.〕 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「Terrell County, Georgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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