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ID: 2024102
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2024102
Record Type:
administrative
Rome (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 085 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -85.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in NW Georgia in valley where Etowah & Oostanaula rivers meet to form Coosa River; occupied by Union troops who destroyed industrial facilities in Civil War; rebuilt after disastrous flood in 1886.
Names:
Rome
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Georgia
(state) (
P
)
................
Floyd
(county) (
P
)
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Rome
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1834 & incorporated in 1847
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for aluminum products, textiles, carpets, electrical transformers, lumber & furniture
trade center (
C
)
............
for cotton & farm produce from entire region
mining center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for grain & livestock farming
educational center (
C
)
............
for Shorter College (1873) & Darlington College
Sources and Contributors:
Rome..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 786
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 163
...........
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS13019339
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1027
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 786
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 163
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS13019339
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1027
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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