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ID: 7014275
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014275
Record Type:
administrative
Portsmouth (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 04 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.0667
decimal degrees
Long: 070 45 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at Piscataqua River on Atlantic coast; state's oldest settlement and only seaport; was site of treaty negotiations for end of Russo-Japanese War; currently a naval industrial center.
Names:
Portsmouth
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for Portsmouth, England in 1653
Piscataqua
(
H
,
V
)
Strawbery Banke
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
New Hampshire
(state) (
P
)
................
Rockingham
(county) (
P
)
....................
Portsmouth
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an English fishing settlement in 1623
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1849
seaport (
C
)
............
since 1600s
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for building & repairing submarines
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for plastics, buttons, gypsum products & machine tools
resort center (
C
)
............
noted for summer retreats
publishing center (
C
)
............
state's first newspaper was published here
capital (
H
)
............
of New Hamphire's provincial government until American Revolution
Sources and Contributors:
Piscataqua..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 631-632
Portsmouth..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
2:751
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
9:631-632
.......................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS33005583
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
974
Strawbery Banke..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 631
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 751; 2:751
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 631; IX, 631-632; 9:631-632
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS33005583
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
974
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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