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ID: 2017061
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2017061
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Manchester (inhabited place)  Manchester (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 46 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.7667  decimal degrees
Long: 072 31 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -72.5167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Hockanum River in central Connecticut; purchased from Mohegan Indians by Reverend Thomas Hooker & his followers; originally a section of East Hartford named Five-Mile Tract; was structured as an ecclesiastical society, Oxford Parish, in 1772.

Names:
Manchester (preferred,C,V)
Five-Mile Tract (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Connecticut (state)  ............  Connecticut (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Hartford (county)  ................  Hartford (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Manchester (inhabited place)  ....................  Manchester (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1672, incorporated 1823
town (C)
mill center (C)  ............  for paper & lumber since before American Revolution & for cotton & silk since 1830s
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for grandfather clocks, farm implements, parachutes, glass & soap
industrial center (C)  ............  for automobile parts & tools
educational center (C)  ............  includes Manchester Community College since 1963

Sources and Contributors:
Five-Mile Tract..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 760
Manchester..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 760
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS9004056
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 721
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 760
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS9004056
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 721
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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