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'' Westminster is a city in northern Maryland, United States. It is the seat of Carroll County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The city's population was 18,590 at the 2010 census. Westminster is an outlying community within the Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA. ==History== William Winchester (1711-1790) purchased approximately 167 acres of land called White's Level in 1754 which became known as the city of Winchester. The Maryland General Assembly later〔when?〕 changed the name of his town from Winchester to Westminster because Winchester was also the name of the county seat of Frederick County, Virginia where it was at that time located.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://home.earthlink.net/~william_winchester/Main.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.westgov.com/264/History-of-Westminster )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WINCHESTER-L Archives )〕 On June 29, 1864, the cavalry skirmish known as Corbit's Charge was fought in the streets of Westminster, when two companies of Delaware cavalry attacked a much larger Confederate force under General J.E.B. Stuart. In April 1865, Joseph Shaw, newspaper editor, had his presses wrecked and his business destroyed, and was subsequently beaten and stabbed to death by four men in Westminster, allegedly because of an anti-Lincoln editorial that was published the week before the actual assassination. In a later trial at the Westminster Court House the four men were acquitted; the reason cited was "self-defense". Just north of Westminster is the farm at which Whittaker Chambers hid the so-called "pumpkin papers." A historic marker states that Westminster was the first place in the nation to offer Rural Free Delivery postal service. Westminster is the birthplace of Sargent Shriver (1915–2011), the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1972, and the first director of the Peace Corps. On March 10, 2006, members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Matthew A. Snyder who had been killed in the Iraq War. Church members stood on city property adjoining St. John Catholic Church where the funeral took place. Snyder's father sued the church for violating his privacy. The United States Supreme Court in March 2011 ruled in ''Snyder v. Phelps'' that church members had a free speech right to picket.〔http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2006-03-11/news/bal-te.md.marine11mar11_1_military-funerals-westboro-baptist-church-shirley-phelps-roper〕 On Friday, June 26, 2015 the City of Westminster lit the Westminster Fiber Network, the first community wide gigabit fiber to the premise network in the mid-Atlantic region. The City partnered with Ting Inc., a subsidiary of Tucows, to light the network and provide gigabit services. 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「Westminster, Maryland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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