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ID: 2099733
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2099733
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Jackson (inhabited place)  Jackson (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 36 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.6000  decimal degrees
Long: 088 48 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on S fork of Forked Deer River in W Tennessee; developed as cotton supply center & railroad junction; named for General (president) Andrew Jackson; occupied by both Confederates & Federal troops during Civil War; Union University fostered growth.

Names:
Jackson (preferred,C,V)
Alexandria (H,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 Tennessee (state)  ............  Tennessee (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Madison (county)  ................  Madison (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Jackson (inhabited place)  ....................  Jackson (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in early 1820s as a port, incorporated as city in 1845
city (C)
county seat (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for textiles, power tools, batteries, furniture, printing plates, food processing, aluminum foil & soft drink bottling
industrial center (C)  ............  for lumber
agricultural center (C)
cultural center (C)  ............  includes railroad museum, prehistoric Indian mounds of Temple Period in Pinson Mounds Park & Shiloh National Military Park

Sources and Contributors:
Alexandria..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 455
Jackson..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 455
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS47026762
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 562
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 455
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS47026762
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 562
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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