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ID: 7013375
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013375
Record Type:
administrative
Bellingham (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 48 45 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 48.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 122 29 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Bellingham Bay, which was named for Sir William Bellingham by Captain George Vancouver in 1792; settled when Henry Roeder built a sawmill at Whatcom Falls in 1852; was staging area for ill-fated Fraser River gold rush in 1857.
Names:
Bellingham
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Washington
(state) (
P
)
................
Whatcom
(county) (
P
)
....................
Bellingham
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1852 when lumber industry was initiated by Captain Henry Roeder
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
includes lumber operations
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for fishing canneries & pleasure boat assemblying
transportation center (
C
)
............
for harbor facilities, railroad connection & gateway to San Juan Islands
educational center (
C
)
............
houses Western Washington University & Whatcom Community College
tourist center (
C
)
............
provides access to Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Sources and Contributors:
Bellingham..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 76
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS53001331
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1319
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 76
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS53001331
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1319
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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