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ID: 7013268
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013268
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Alexandria (inhabited place)  Alexandria (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 18 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 31.3000  decimal degrees
Long: 092 26 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -92.4333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Red River in central Louisiana; named for Alexander Fulton, who received Spanish land grant; was river trading center before 1850s; taken by Union Forces during American Civil War, burned in 1864 & as a result, all municipal records were lost.

Names:
Alexandria (preferred,C,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 Louisiana (state)  ............  Louisiana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Rapides (parish (political))  ................  Rapides (parish (political)) (P)
Hierarchy of Alexandria (inhabited place)  ....................  Alexandria (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1785
city (C)  ............  incorporated 1882
county seat (C)
manufacturing center (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  for livestock
mill center (C)  ............  for lumber
educational center (C)  ............  home of Louisiana State University at Alexandria & Louisiana College
resort (C)  ............  for Hot Wells Health Resort, Cotile Recreation Area & Kisatchie National Forest

Sources and Contributors:
Alexandria..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 1:250
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22000161
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 30
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 250; 1:250
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22000161
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 30
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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