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ID: 7013994
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013994
Record Type:
administrative
Manitowoc (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 087 39 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -87.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on W coast of Lake Michigan; was an 18th-cen. trading post; today is a port of entry on St. Lawrence Seaway; is a shipbuilding & manufacturing center that produces aluminumware, canned vegetables & malt products.
Names:
Manitowoc
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wisconsin
(state) (
P
)
................
Manitowoc
(county) (
P
)
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Manitowoc
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
trading post established by NW Company 1795; permanently settled 1837
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1851
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Manitowoc..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 780
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS55010004
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 780
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS55010004
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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