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Montgomery Bell State Park is a Tennessee state park in Dickson County, Tennessee in the United States. The park covers and its official elevation is . However due to the dissected wooded terrain typical of the Nashville Basin, actual elevations range from 580 feet (180 m) to 860 feet (260 m). The park is open for year-round recreation including boating, hiking, camping, fishing and golf. Montgomery Bell State Park was built during the Great Depression by members of the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps as Montgomery Bell Recreational Demonstration Area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 TENNESSEE: A GUIDE TO THE STATE )〕 The park named for iron industrialist Montgomery Bell is known as the birthplace of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Montgomery State Park )〕 ==History== Montgomery Bell State Park is located in what was once the center of the iron industry in Middle Tennessee.〔 The park's namesake, Montgomery Bell, arrived in Tennessee from his birthplace in Pennsylvania by way of Kentucky. Bell purchased an iron works at Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee in 1804. He was soon able to expand his operation throughout the area forming one of the largest iron making operations in the state and earning him the name "Tennessee's First Iron Master". Bell owned numerous slaves. Some records indicate that he owned as many as 400 slaves at different points in time. He used his slave labor to expand his business during the War of 1812 when his furnaces produce cannonballs for the armies of General Andrew Jackson.〔 The furnaces also produced many types of farm tools that were used throughout the Southeastern United States.〔 Montgomery Bell became quite wealthy and was said to be the richest man in the South before the American Civil War.〔 Prior to his death Bell began emancipating his slaves through the American Colonization Society. He sent 88 slaves on two ships to Liberia and intended to free all of them. Ultimately not all of his slaves were granted their freedom before he died in 1855.〔 Laurel Furnace was the main iron furnace within what is now Montgomery Bell State Park. The furnace was not owned by Bell. It was built in 1815 by Robert Napier.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Dickson County: Laurel Furnace )〕 Napier was producing 660 tons of iron by 1820 at a value of over $32,000. The pig iron produced at Laurel Furnace was then shipped to Turnbull Forge in Cheatham County where it was worked into higher quality iron.〔 High quality iron, guaranteed by Napier was produced at Laurel Furnace until the late 1850s.〔 The ruins of the furnace are found at the park.〔〔 The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 in the log cabin home of Reverend Samuel McAdow within what is now Montgomery Bell State Park.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 About the Cumberland Presbyterian Church )〕 The church is a small denomination of the Presbyterian church with less than 50,000 members in 800 congregations.〔Yearbook of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 2007.〕 A replica of McAdow's cabin now stands where the church was found, and a sandstone chapel commemorating the event has been erected nearby. These two buildings are two of the main attractions in Montgomery Bell State Park.〔 Montgomery Bell State Park was developed as Montgomery Bell Recreational Demonstration Area during the Great Depression.〔 The Recreational Demonstration Area program was a National Park Service program during the 1930s and early 1940s that built forty-six public parks in twenty-four states on . The NPS used labor from Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, to Montgomery Bell Recreational Demonstration Area. By the conclusion of World War II, the Recreational Demonstration Areas throughout the nation had all either become National Park Service units or been given to their states for use as state parks. Montgomery Bell State Park was given to the state of Tennessee in 1943.〔 The ancient historical pow-pow and 20th Century mining corporation scenes in ''Ernest Goes to Camp'' were filmed here. 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「Montgomery Bell State Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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