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ID: 2122478
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2122478
Record Type:
administrative
Sturgeon Bay (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 087 22 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -87.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at head of Sturgeon Bay, inlet of Green Bay; ship canal (1878) connects Green Bay with Lake Michigan; chief economic activities are shipbuilding & cherry processing.
Names:
Sturgeon Bay
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Wisconsin
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Sturgeon Bay
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
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settled as lumbering community 1850s
city (
C
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county seat (
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port (
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tourist center (
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Sources and Contributors:
Sturgeon Bay..........
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 334
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS55017149
Subject:
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 334
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS55017149
Note:
English
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