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ID: 2017438
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2017438
Record Type:
administrative
Stonington (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 071 54 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Long Island Sound; was established in mid-17th cen.; flourished as a whaling & shipbuilding center; was attacked by British in both American Revolution & War of 1812.
Names:
Stonington
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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North and Central America
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P
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United States
(nation) (
P
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Connecticut
(state) (
P
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New London
(county) (
P
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Stonington
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1649
town (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
fishing community (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Stonington..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 892
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS9006757
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1156
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 892
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS9006757
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1156
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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