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Lincolnton is a small city in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States, within the Lincolnton metropolitan area. The population was 10,683 at the 2010 census. Lincolnton is northwest of Charlotte, on the South Fork of the Catawba River, and near the junction of State Highway 27 and U.S. Route 321. It is the county seat of Lincoln County,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 and is also the only legally incorporated municipality wholly within the county. ==History== In June 1780, the future site of Lincolnton was the site of the Battle of Ramsour's Mill, a small engagement in which local Loyalists were defeated by pro-independence forces. Some historians consider the battle significant because it disrupted Loyalist organizing in the region at a crucial time. The battle site was chosen for the seat of Lincoln County after it split off from old Tryon County, (named for a hated royally-appointed governor). The new city and the county were named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Lincolnton was the site of the first textile mill built in North Carolina, constructed by Michael Schenck in 1813.〔(Michael Schenck ), textilehistory.org〕 It was the first cotton mill built south of the Potomac River. St. Luke's Episcopal Church was founded in 1841.〔http://s3.amazonaws.com/dfc_attachments/public/documents/3153327/St._Luke_s_Historical_Brochure.pdf〕 Confederate Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek in the final year of the Civil War, came from and was buried in Lincolnton. Confederate Missionary Bishop Henry C. Lay spent the final months of the Civil War in the town. Union forces occupied Lincoln County on Easter Monday, 1865.〔 In the 1990s, the city expanded eastward by annexing Boger City, a formerly independent town. The Caldwell-Cobb-Love House, Emanuel United Church of Christ, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Eureka Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill, First Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church, First United Methodist Church, Lincoln County Courthouse, Lincolnton Commercial Historic District, Lincolnton Recreation Department Youth Center, Loretz House, Methodist Church Cemetery, Old White Church Cemetery, Pleasant Retreat Academy, Shadow Lawn, South Aspen Street Historic District, St. Luke's Church and Cemetery, West Main Street Historic District, and Woodside are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 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「Lincolnton, North Carolina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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