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Shepherdsville is a home rule-class city〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform )〕 on the Salt River in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=June 7, 2011 )〕 located just south of Louisville. The population was 11,222 during the 2010 U.S. Census. ==History== American Indians have been shown to have lived in the area for at least 15,000 years.〔''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'', (pp. 140 ff ). "Bullitt County" & "Bullitt's Lick". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1992. Accessed October 10, 2013.〕 The vicinity was originally known as "Bullitt's Lick" for the salt licks discovered by surveyor Capt. Thomas Bullitt in 1773. The area was home to Kentucky's first commercial salt works, although these were shuttered in the 1830s by competition from Virginian works along the Kanawha River.〔 Shepherdsville grew up around the mill and store erected along the Salt River by Adam Shepherd, who had purchased in the area. The city named for him received its charter in 1793 and became the county seat when Bullitt County was formed in 1796.〔Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names''. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987.〕 The first post office opened in 1806.〔 In 1836, a mineral water spa called Paroquet Springs opened. The mineral water supposedly had medicinal properties, so sufferers from a variety of maladies visited Shepherdsville to drink and bathe in the water. In the mid-1850s, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's mainline was constructed nearby. During the Civil War, the railroad bridge over the Salt River at Shepherdsville was a potential target for sabotage and was guarded by Union troops. In 1879, the Paroquet Springs hotel burned to the ground, but water from the springs continued to be bottled and sold until 1915. The Lynching of Marie Thompson of Shepherdsville happened in 1904, close at the jail, near Lebanon Junction. The deadliest train wreck in Kentucky history, which killed about fifty people in a two-train collision, took place in Shepherdsville several days before Christmas in 1917.〔(Train Wreck Marker ) installed at (the corner of 2nd and Walnut streets in Shepherdsville, Bullitt County )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bullitt County History Museum: ''1917 Train Wreck Book - New Edition'' )〕 Throughout most of the 20th century, Shepherdsville was primarily an agricultural area. With the construction of the Kentucky Turnpike in the 1950s and Interstate 65 in the 1980s, people who worked in Louisville could live outside the city. From then on, Shepherdsville experienced a period of rapid growth. 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「Shepherdsville, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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