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Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48093.html )〕 The county seat is Comanche.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded in 1856 and is named for the Comanche Native American tribe. ==History== *Among the first inhabitants were the Comanche Indian tribe. *In 1854, Jesse M Mercer and others organized a colony near the future settlement of Newburg in Comanche County on lands earlier granted by Mexico to Stephen F. Austin and Samuel May Williams. Frank M. Collier built the first log house in the county.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txcomanc/1860indx.html )〕 *In 1856, the Texas legislature formed Comanche County from Coryell and Bosque counties. Cora community, named after Cora Beeman of Bell County, was designated as the county seat. *Comanche became the county seat in 1859. *As of 1860, the county population was 709 persons, including 61 slaves.〔 *The ''Comanche Chief'' began publication in 1873. Editor Joe Hill’s brother, Robert T. Hill, worked on the newspaper while developing his esteemed career as a geologist. *John Wesley Hardin and his gang celebrated his 21st birthday in 1874 in Brown and Comanche counties. Deputy Charles Webb drew his gun, provoking a gunfight that ended Webb’s life. A lynch mob was formed, but Hardin and his family were put into protective custody. The mob broke into the jail and hanged his brother Joe and two cousins. Hardin fled. *In 1877, John Wesley Hardin was arrested on a train in Pensacola, Florida by Texas Rangers and a local authority while traveling under the alias James W. Swain. Hardin was tried in Comanche for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb, and sentenced to 25 years in Huntsville Prison.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Biographical Note )〕 *The Texas Central Railroad began service in Comanche County in 1885, and began carrying cattle and cotton to market.〔 *By 1890, cotton had become king in the county, but by the start of the 20th century, the boll weevil had devastated the county cotton industry for three decades. *In 1907, farmers in the county began to experiment with peanut farming.〔 *Oil was discovered at Desdemona in 1910. *The peak year for the Comanche County oil boom was 1920. More than 70,000 fruit trees were grown in the county.〔 *In 1951–1952, a desperate, drought-stricken county experimented with rain making.〔 *Proctor Lake was impounded in 1963 to provide flood control and drinking water.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/proctor/Information/History.asp )〕 *From 1968 to 1974, the Comanche County native Jim Reese served as the mayor of Odessa, Texas. He launched unsuccessful congressional campaigns in the 1976 general election against the Democrat George H. Mahon and in the 1978 Republican primary against George W. Bush. *During the 1970s, the oil industrialist Bill Noël of Odessa purchased orchards in Comanche County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Douglas Noël )〕 *As of 1982, Comanche was ranked second in Texas, with a peanut production of more than 45,546,000 pounds.〔 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「Comanche County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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