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ID: 2111764
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2111764
Record Type:
administrative
Fisher's Hill (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 078 23 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -78.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Noted for battle during Civil War when Union troops under Sheridan defeated Confederate forces under Jubal Early in September 1864; this left the way open for Sheridan to devastate the Shenandoah Valley food source.
Names:
Fisher's Hill
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Fishershill
(
C
,
V
)
Fishers Hill
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Virginia
(state) (
P
)
................
Shenandoah
(county) (
P
)
....................
Fisher's Hill
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fishers Hill..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51009184
Fisher's Hill..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
397
Fishershill..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 294
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 294
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51009184
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
397
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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