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Campbell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 40,716.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/47013.html )〕 Its county seat is Jacksboro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Campbell County is included in the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Campbell County was formed in 1806 from parts of Anderson and Claiborne counties. It was named in honor of Colonel Arthur Campbell (1743–1811), a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and an officer during the American Revolutionary War.〔(History of Campbell County ), originally published on county's official website. Accessed at Archive.org, 6 April 2013.〕 New Mammoth Cave, located in Elk Valley, just west of Jellico, was mined for saltpeter (the main ingredient of gunpowder) during the War of 1812. It is possible that this cave was also mined during the Civil War. In 1921 the cave was developed as a tourist attraction and was open to the public until at least 1928. Today, New Mammoth Cave is securely gated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is a sanctuary for bats, including the federally endangered Indiana bat. During the Civil War, the county's sympathies were predominantly with the Union. On June 8, 1861, Campbell Countians rejected Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession by a vote of 1,094 to 60.〔Oliver Perry Temple, ''(East Tennessee and the Civil War )'' (R. Clarke Company, 1899), p. 199.〕 On August 1, 1861, Campbell County became the first Tennessee county to form a Union Army unit for the Civil War, organizing Company B of the 1st Tennessee Infantry at Jacksboro.〔Joe Stephens, (Citizen's Voice: Campbell County first in state to form Union units ), ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', July 30, 2011, page 2B.〕 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「Campbell County, Tennessee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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