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ID: 2009230
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2009230
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pine Bluff (inhabited place)  Pine Bluff (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 13 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.2167  decimal degrees
Long: 092 00 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -92.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on cascading bluffs overlooking Arkansas River in central Arkansas; site of Civil War battle where Confederates under General John S. Marmaduke were overtaken by Federal forces under Colonel Powell Clayton, who later became governor & senator.

Names:
Pine Bluff (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for its location in a pine forest after a Civil War battle took place there in 1832
Mount Marie (H,V)  ............ when it was a trading post from 1819 to 1832
Mount Maria (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 Arkansas (state)  ............  Arkansas (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Jefferson (county)  ................  Jefferson (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Pine Bluff (inhabited place)  ....................  Pine Bluff (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled as a trading post by Joseph Bonne in 1819
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1846
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for electrical transformers, textiles, chemicals, cottonseed oil & food products
mill center (C)  ............  for lumber
agricultural center (C)  ............  for cotton
educational center (C)  ............  houses University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff since 1873 & a vocational technical school

Sources and Contributors:
Mount Maria..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS5015587
Mount Marie..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 452
Pine Bluff..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 452
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS5015587
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 956
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 452
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS5015587
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 956
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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