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Lewistown (Assiniboine: ''Wá ską́šį diʾóda '' ) is a city in and the county seat of Fergus County, Montana, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 5,901 at the 2010 census. Lewistown is located in central Montana, the geographic center of the state, southeast of Great Falls. First planned in 1882, it was the site of an 1880s gold rush. ==History== The area that is now Lewistown was once the territory of the Blackfoot Native Americans. In 1874, Fort Lewis was established there by the Company "F" of the 7th U.S. Infantry to provide military protection for people traveling on the Carroll Trail, the then shortest route between Carroll, Montana and Helena. Lewistown is named after this fort.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Profile for Lewistown, Montana, MT )〕 The first permanent settlers of Lewistown were Métis. The Metis established Lewistown in 1879.〔Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer S. H. Brown, ''The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America'' (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001) p. 7〕 Pierre Berger is credited with being the founder of Lewistown. Berger, along with his wife Judith Wilkie Berger, son Isadore Berger, Isaie Berger, Jean Baptiste Berger and Jacques Berger, as well as several other families made the trek into the Lewistown area in 1879. Francis Janeaux came with the second group. Janeaux founded the first public school house in 1883. This date is considered the official "founding" of Lewistown. Lewistown was also the site of a gold rush when gold was discovered in the nearby Judith Mountains in 1880. Before the gold rush, Maiden was the largest city in central Montana. When the gold supply ran out, many of the miners gained new employment in Lewistown and settled there permanently. Lewistown was the eastern terminus of the Montana Railroad which connected with Lombard, Montana, a distance of approximately miles. The railroad connected with the national railway network via a connection with the Northern Pacific Railway at Lombard. The Montana Railroad line was constructed between 1895 and 1903, and operated independently until 1908, when it was acquired by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road"). During World War II, in 1942 the US Army Air Corps established a B-17 training base just west of Lewistown to train aircrews for missions in North Africa and Europe. The former airbase is now the Lewistown Municipal Airport. 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「Lewistown, Montana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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