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Van Buren is a city that is the county seat of Carter County, Missouri, in the United States. It is the largest town in Carter County. Van Buren was founded in 1833 as the county seat of Ripley County and was named after then Vice President of the United States, Martin Van Buren. In 1859 Van Buren became a part of the newly created Carter County and was subsequently selected to be the county seat.〔Dr. Gene Oakley “A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition” 2007 pg 34〕 The 2010 U.S. Census shows Van Buren with a population of 819, a decrease of 3.1 percent from its 2000 population of 845.〔(“U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Demographic Profile Data” )〕 ==History== In 1833 a commission appointed for the purpose of choosing a site for the county seat of Ripley County selected a site one-half mile west and across Current River from the present location of Van Buren. They named the new county seat Van Buren after the then Vice President of the United States, Martin Van Buren. A court house was built and a small city grew up around it. The city had one small general merchandise store run by a man named Shaw and a water powered grist mill owned by John George. Van Buren remained the county seat of Ripley County until 1847 when the county seat was moved south to the town of Doniphan. After the removal of the county seat to Doniphan the town declined until only three or four families remained. On March 10, 1859 Van Buren became part of the newly created Carter County and a few days later on April 4, Van Buren was selected to be the county seat of Carter County. In 1867 the present site of Van Buren, located about a half-mile east and across the river from the original site, was purchased from Zimri A. Carter. Fifty acres of land was purchased from Zimri A. Carter for $475 and the deed given to Carter County commissioner James Snider. The first building to be built, even before the new city site was fully laid out, was a log court house located somewhat west of the current court house. In 1874 the ''Vidette'', a newspaper published by Dr. McDonald, began a brief run of only a few months before it folded. In 1876 another newspaper, the ''Times'', published by Tom Brown and James Moseley, was published until 1884 at which time it was merged with the ''Current Local'', which was established by Clay Moseley that same year, and which is now Carter County’s only locally published newspaper. In 1893-94 the first bridge to cross the Current River was built at Van Buren at a total cost of $4,500. It was a suspension bridge and a toll of 5 cents per person and 15 cents for a team and wagon was charged for crossing it. In 1901 the Carter County Bank, later known as the Carter County State Bank was instituted in Van Buren. In 1907 the company of Pitman and Henry began a motorboat passenger service up and down the Current River between Van Buren and Doniphan Sometime after 1907 the lines of the Willow Springs Local Long Distance Phone Company reached Van Buren bringing phone service to Van Buren. In 1909 a structural steel bridge was built across the Current River at a total cost of about $9,000. This bridge was destroyed by a flood in 1915. The bridge was rebuilt at a cost of $15,000 and served the community until 1926 when a new $200,000 bridge was completed. Route 16, later to become U.S. Highway 60 crossed this bridge. In 1927 electricity first came to Van Buren. The electricity was produced by a generator plant at Van Buren until 1934 at which time electricity generated by plants at Joplin and Lebanon was brought into the city.〔Dr. Gene Oakley “A History of Carter County, Sesquicentennial Edition” 2007 pages 6, 34-47〕 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「Van Buren, Missouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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