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ID: 7013797
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013797
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gary (inhabited place)  Gary (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 35 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 087 20 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -87.3333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on S shore of Lake Michigan, near Chicago; site was purchased and laid out by US Steel Corporation in 1905; is major steel-producing center, between iron ore beds to N and coal region to S; noted for development of public education "platoon school."

Names:
Gary (preferred,C,V,English-P)  ............ named for Judge Elbert H Gary, founder & chairman of the board of US Steel Corporation
גארי (C,U,Hebrew )

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 Indiana (state)  ............  Indiana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Lake (county)  ................  Lake (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Gary (inhabited place)  ....................  Gary (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  incorporated in 1906
city (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  first blast furnace was fired in December 1908
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
גארי..........  [IMJ]
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Gary..........  [FDA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:323
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 5:135
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
...........  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
...........  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18005760
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 429
Subject: .....  [FDA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 323; 1:323
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 135; 5:135
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18005760
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 429
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)

 

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