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ID: 2003270
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2003270
Record Type:
administrative
Decatur (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 086 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -86.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Tennessee river; settled in early 19th cen.; developed as cotton center & terminal for Alabama's first railroad; was devastated during Civil War under both Union & Confederate occupation; rebuilt during Reconstruction era.
Names:
Decatur
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named in 1826 for Stephen Decatur, naval hero
Rhodes Ferry
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Alabama
(state) (
P
)
................
Morgan
(county) (
P
)
....................
Decatur
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
chartered in 1826
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
power production center (
C
)
............
noted for nearby nuclear power plant of the Tennessee Valley Authority
county seat (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Decatur..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS1005965
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
320
Rhodes Ferry..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 231
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 231
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS1005965
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
320
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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