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Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,237.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/47/47115.html )〕 Its county seat is Jasper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Marion County is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Marion County was established in 1817 from lands acquired from the Cherokee.〔William Ray Turner, "(Grundy County )," ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''. Retrieved: 16 October 2013.〕 In 1779 Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe moved down the Tennessee River from Chickamauga Creek to Running Water creek, and helped establish the associated town of Nickajack in front of the entrance to Nickajack Cave. In 1794, this town was attacked and burned. This attack was led by Colonel James Orr of Nashville, Tennessee. The town was rebuilt and the Chickamauga Band of Indians continued to live here until 1838, when all remaining Indians were removed from Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia via the Trail of Tears.〔"Caves of Chattanooga" by Larry E. Matthews, 2007, Published by the National Speleological Society, ISBN 978-1-879961-27-2〕 In the Spring of 1861, Robert Cravens of Chattanooga began mining saltpeter, the main ingredient of gunpowder, at Nickajack Cave. This operation was eventually taken over by the Confederate Niter Bureau. At one point, Nickajack Cave was one of the main sources of saltpeter for the Confederate States of America. Nickajack Cave was visited by thousands of Civil War troops, who moved up and down the Tennessee River on boats.〔 Another important saltpeter mine during the Civil War was Monteagle Saltpeter Cave, located in Cave Cove, approximately southeast of Monteagle. During the Civil War, it was referred to as Battle Creek Cave. A 1917 visitor to the cave reported 25 or 30 old hoppers remaining in the cave.〔Marion O. Smith, ''Confederate Niter District Eight: Middle Tennessee & Northwest Georgia'', 2011.〕 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coal and iron ore mining industries dominated the county's economy. Mines operated in Whitwell and Inman, and smelters operated in South Pittsburg.〔 Hales Bar Dam, built along the Tennessee River in Marion County between 1905 and 1913, was one of the nation's first major dams constructed across a navigable channel. The Tennessee Valley Authority replaced Hales Bar with Nickajack Dam further downstream in the 1960s, though the Hales Bar powerhouse (now a boathouse) still stands.〔 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「Marion County, Tennessee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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