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Wilkinson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,878.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28/28157.html )〕 Its county seat is Woodville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county is named for James Wilkinson, a Revolutionary War military leader and first Governor of the Louisiana Territory. ==History== In the nineteenth century, this county was developed by European-American settlers as cotton plantations along the Mississippi River, which forms the western border of the county. Much of the bottomlands and interior were undeveloped frontier until after the American Civil War. The intensive cultivation depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans; in the early nineteenth century, many were transported here from the Upper South in a major forced migration. The population quickly became majority black. The West Feliciana Railroad was later built to help get the cotton commodity crop to market. Some planters got wealthy during the antebellum years and built fine mansions in the county seat of Woodville, Mississippi. After the Civil War, freedmen and planters negotiated new working arrangements, and sharecropping was widespread. A long agricultural depression affected the economy. The peak of population in the county was reached in 1900, after which many blacks left in the Great Migration, to escape the racial segregation and disfranchisement suffered here since passage of Jim Crow laws and the state's new constitution in 1890. In the early 20th century the boll weevil infestation destroyed much of the cotton crops, and mechanization caused a further loss of agricultural jobs. Timber has been harvested and processed as a new commodity crop. The population of the rural county has continued to decline. Towns have started to develop heritage tourism to attract more visitors. 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「Wilkinson County, Mississippi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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