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ID: 2032746
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2032746
Record Type:
administrative
Marion (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 085 39 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -85.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Mississinewa river; town developed as agricultural town, but local oil & gas discoveries attracted industry; noted for nearby battlefield where US troops fought the Miami in 1812.
Names:
Marion
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C
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V
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named for Francis Marion, a general in the Revolutionary War
Hierarchical Position:
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Indiana
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Grant
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Marion
(inhabited place) (
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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settled in 1826, incorporated in 1889
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
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since 1831
manufacturing center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
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noted as early home of James Dean, popular American actor of the 1950s
Sources and Contributors:
Marion..........
[
VP Preferred
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 852
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18010021
Subject:
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[
VP
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 852
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18010021
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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