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ID: 7013626
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013626
Record Type:
administrative
Durham (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 08 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.1333
decimal degrees
Long: 070 55 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.9167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Oyster river S of Dover; established in 17th cen.; was attacked by Native Americans from 1670s & burned in 1694; noted for role in American Revolution, when gunpowder & weapons were hidden from British here.
Names:
Durham
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for Durham, England, in 1732
Oyster River
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
New Hampshire
(state) (
P
)
................
Strafford
(county) (
P
)
....................
Durham
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by English in 1635, on site known to Native Americans
town (
C
)
university center (
C
)
............
site of University of New Hampshire
Sources and Contributors:
Durham..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 260
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS33002029
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Oyster River..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 260
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 260
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS33002029
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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