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Chatham County ( )〔( Talk Like A Tar Heel ), from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2012-09-25.〕 is a county located in the Piedmont area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 63,505.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37/37037.html )〕 Its county seat is Pittsboro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Chatham County is part of the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,998,808 as of U.S. Census 2012 Population Estimates. ==History== Some of the first European settlers of what would become the county were English Quakers, who settled along the Haw and Eno rivers. The county was formed in 1771 from Orange County. It was named in 1758 for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who served as British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1768 and opposed harsh colonial policies. In 1907, parts of Chatham County and Moore County were combined to form Lee County. The award-winning PBS documentary, ''Family Name,'' notes Chatham County as the place where men of the Alston family fathered children with African-American slaves, leading to Alston descendants who were African American, as well as European-American branches of the family. George Moses Horton, Historic Poet Laureate of Chatham County, (1797?-1883) lived most of his life in Chatham County and is among the few slaves to have published material while still a slave. Moncure once served as the westernmost inland port in the state, as steamships could travel between it and the coast. On March 25, 2010, the Chatham County Courthouse, built in 1881, caught fire while undergoing renovations. It has now been rebuilt. For more information, see Pittsboro, North Carolina. 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「Chatham County, North Carolina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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