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ID: 2031713
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2031713
Record Type:
administrative
Elkhart (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 085 58 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -85.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at confluence of St. Joseph & Elkhart rivers; city was laid out at the junction of Amerindian trails; grew with establishment of repair shops for Michigan Southern Railroad; noted for manufacture of band instruments & pharmaceuticals.
Names:
Elkhart
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named for island in the confluence, which local Amerindians said was shaped like an elk's heart
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Elkhart
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
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laid out in 1832
city (
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transportation center (
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manufacturing center (
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brass cornets were made here by CG Conn from 1875, & pharmaceuticals at Miles Laboratories from 1884
Sources and Contributors:
Elkhart..........
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 457
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18004719
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 457
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18004719
Note:
English
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