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ID: 2026630
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2026630
Record Type:
administrative
Bloomington (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 29 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.4833
decimal degrees
Long: 088 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located adjacent to Normal, in a rich agricultural region; was settled in 1822 & grew according to a town plan designed in 1831; noted as site where Abraham Lincoln delivered his "lost speech" at Old Mayor's Hall in 1856.
Names:
Bloomington
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
renamed when town was laid out in 1831
Blooming Grove
(
H
,
V
)
Keg Grove
(
H
,
V
)
............
name of the original settlement here
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Illinois
(state) (
P
)
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McLean
(county) (
P
)
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Bloomington
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1822, incorporated in 1850
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for surrounding corn-growing region
breeding center (animal) (
C
)
............
especially for dairy cows
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
produces farm machinery, electrical equipment & vacuum cleaners
mining center (
C
)
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for coal
university center (
C
)
............
for Illinois Wesleyan University, founded in 1850
cultural center (
C
)
............
noted for the annual American Passion Play
Sources and Contributors:
Blooming Grove..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 294
Bloomington..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 294
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS17001610
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
153
Keg Grove..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 294
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 294
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS17001610
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
153
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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