Abilene Educational Attainment by Sex over The highest rate of high school graduation is among islander people with a rate of The highest rate of bachelors degrees is among asian people with a rate of Abilene Educational Attainment by Race.
Average Earnings. Average Male. Average Female. Abilene Earnings by Educational Attainment. Abilene Language Abilene Language. Abilene Poverty by Race Loading Overall Poverty Rate.
Male Poverty Rate. Female Poverty Rate. Abilene Poverty. Name Poverty Less Than 9th Grade Abilene Poverty Rate by Education. Rate Poverty Female Unemployed Abilene Income by Household Type Loading Income by Household Type. Abilene Marital Status Loading Marriage Rates Overall Marriage Rate. Male Marriage Rate. Female Marriage Rate. Abilene Married by Age and Sex Loading Abilene Marriage The age group where males are most likely to be married is Over 65, while the female age group most likely to be married is Abilene Marital Status by Race Loading Abilene Marital Status.
Number of Veterans. Male Veterans. Female Veterans. It was named by Mrs. In allowing it to fall open where it might. It happened to be at the third chapter of Luke, in the first verse of which is the name of Abilene, meaning City of the Plains. The growth of the city was slow until the Kansas Pacific Railroad was built through Abilene in A livestock dealer form Illinois, Joseph G. McCoy, saw the opportunities presented by the railroad in providing a means of transporting Texas cattle to markets in the est.
McCoy came to Abilene with the plan of making it a cattle shipping center and built a stockyard and hotel for the purpose. The new enterprise prospered until when newer railroads put Newton, Wichita, and Ellsworth in favored positions as shipping points. As the end of the Texas cattle trail -- Chisholm Trail -- it rapidly became a wild and "open" frontier town.
Stores, saloons, and gambling houses sprang up to compete for the patronage of the cowboys. With the prosperity of the cattlemen came an era of lawlessness. Tom Smith, who had the reputation of being one of the bravest men in the West, became the first city marshal.
One of his first official acts was to issue an order that no one would be allowed to carry firearms within the city limits without a permit. Smith's ability was well enough respected that even the most troublesome cowboys and gamblers obeyed. In , however, Smith was murdered while attempting to arrest a man near the town of Detroit.
Tom Smith's successor as city marshal was the famous Wild Bill Hickok. Wild Bill's name was well known in the west before he came to Abilene, but the deadly marksmanship he displayed in keeping the city quiet and orderly throughout added to his fame. His reported long record of fatal shots at white men, or of knives sunk in their hearts, whether he acted as a Union Scout in the Civic War, frontier guide, duelist, marshal or gambler, caused the citizens to give him a wide berth.
He figured as the recognized superior among the two-pistol men meaning ability to shoot straight with either hand or both hands at once. Wild Bill's headquarters in Abilene was in the palatial Alamo Saloon. The town trustees appointed him marshal because of his skilled fearlessness.
It is situated 1, feet above sea level on generally flat terrain. The city is connected east-west by Interstate Highway 20 and north-south by U. Reflecting its beginning as a railroad townsite, Abilene is bisected by the Texas and Pacific tracks, which run east-west.
Abilene owes its genesis to the Texas and Pacific and a group of ranchers and land speculators. Before the coming of the railroad, the Abilene area had been sporadically inhabited by nomadic Indians and United States military personnel and later by buffalo hunters and ranchers. By the s the Indians had been driven out, and cattlemen began to graze their herds in the area.
Taylor County was organized in , and Buffalo Gap was designated the county seat. When the Texas and Pacific Railway began to push westward in , several ranchers and businessmen— Claiborne W.
Merchant , John Merchant, John N. Simpson , John T. Berry, and S. Chalk—met with H. Whithers, the Texas and Pacific track and townsite locator, and arranged to have the railroad bypass Buffalo Gap. They agreed that the route would traverse the northern part of the county and consequently their own land, and that a new town would be established between Cedar and Big Elm creeks east of Catclaw Creek. Merchant apparently suggested the name Abilene, after the Kansas cattle town.
Stoddard Johnston and other railroad officials platted the townsite. Several hundred people arrived in Abilene before the sale of town lots and began to establish businesses and a church. The lots were auctioned on March 15, ; in two days buyers purchased more than lots, and Abilene was officially established.
On January 2, , the residents voted to incorporate, and in an election held on October 23, , Abilene became the county seat. By the city had a population of 3,; twenty years later the number of residents was 9, In slightly more than years Abilene developed from an almost entirely agricultural economy to a diversified economy based on oil, agriculture, commerce, light manufacturing, and service.
World War II was the watershed for the city's growth and economic development. The initial and most obvious drawback to Abilene's economic development was a lack of water, since the normal annual rainfall is only Local farmers were urged to diversify their crops in order to protect both themselves and processors in Abilene from losses due to weather, pests, price fluctuations, and other causes outside their control. The city began holding fairs in to promote the region's agricultural products.
Severe droughts in —10 and —18 and the decline of farm prices in the s and s retarded economic growth. Since prosperity depended also on adequate transportation, civic leaders vigorously sought additional railroad connections and succeeded when the Abilene and Northern and the Abilene and Southern railroads provided north-south connections in the early twentieth century. Efforts to attract the Santa Fe Railroad to Abilene failed.
Internal transportation improved with the establishment of the Abilene Street Railway called the Abilene Traction Company after , which ran streetcar lines from to Abilene Electric Light and Power began operation in ; a private telephone service began in City water and electricity were combined in one firm, Abilene Light and Water Company, in The acquisition of Camp Barkeley , a United States Army post, in changed the demographic composition, urban landscape, leadership, and outlook of the town.
One and one-half million soldiers who spent some time at Barkeley and at the air base at Tye established in infused millions of dollars into the local economy.
0コメント