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ID: 2011439
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2011439
Record Type:
administrative
Fremont (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 121 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -121.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Named after explorer John C Frémont; gold rush transformed town into busy center for miners mid-19th cen.; resort center grew around artesian springs; Charlie Chaplin's "The Tramp" filmed here in 1915; freeway construction stimulated suburban growth.
Names:
Fremont
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Centerville
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
California
(state) (
P
)
................
Alameda
(county) (
P
)
....................
Fremont
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded around Mission San José de Guadalupe, built by Spanish priests & native Ohlone Amerindians in 1797
city (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
resort (
H
)
mining center (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Centerville..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6011997
Fremont..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
AAA: California/Nevada (1990)
45
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 972
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6011997
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
AAA: California/Nevada (1990)
45
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 972
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6011997
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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