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ID: 7016023
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016023
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gettysburg National Military Park (military park)  Gettysburg National Military Park (military park)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 49 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.8167  decimal degrees
Long: 077 13 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -77.2167  decimal degrees

Note: Site of battle considered turning point of Civil War; Union Army under Meade stopped advance of Confederates under Lee on July 1-3, 1863; there were 45,000 casualities; Lincoln delivered Gettysburg Address at dedication of cemetery on November 19.

Names:
Gettysburg National Military Park (preferred,C,V)
Gettysburg (C,V)
Gettysburg National Historical Park (C,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 Pennsylvania (state)  ............  Pennsylvania (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Adams (county)  ................  Adams (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Gettysburg National Military Park (military park)  ....................  Gettysburg National Military Park (military park) (P)

Place Types:
military park (preferred, C)  ............  established 1895
battlefield (H)  ............  July 1863

Sources and Contributors:
Gettysburg..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 333
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 223
Gettysburg National Historical Park..........  [VP]
...........................................................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS42009641
Gettysburg National Military Park..........  [VP Preferred]
........................................................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS42009641
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 333
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 223
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS42009641
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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