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ID: 7014198
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014198
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of New Britain (inhabited place)  New Britain (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 39 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.6500  decimal degrees
Long: 072 46 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -72.7667  decimal degrees

Note: Coextensive with township of New Britain in central Connecticut; flourished as manufacturing center for tin & brass in 18th cen.; known as one of earliest industrial centers of New England; birthplace of Elihu Burritt, philanthropist & peace activist.

Names:
New Britain (preferred,C,V)  ............ since 1754
The Great Swamp (H,V)  ............ from 1686 to 1754

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 Connecticut (state)  ............  Connecticut (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Hartford (county)  ................  Hartford (county) (P)
Hierarchy of New Britain (inhabited place)  ....................  New Britain (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1686 as the Great Swamp & incorporated as a city in 1870
city (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  for hardware, ball bearings, machinery & metalworks
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for household appliances & tools
educational center (C)  ............  includes Central Connecticut State University which originated as a state normal school in 1849
cultural center (C)  ............  houses New Britain Museum of American Art

Sources and Contributors:
New Britain..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 650
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 630
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS9004625
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 828
The Great Swamp..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 630
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 650
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 630
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS9004625
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 828
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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