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ID: 7014278
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014278
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Portsmouth (inhabited place)  Portsmouth (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 50 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.8333  decimal degrees
Long: 076 17 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -76.2833  decimal degrees

Note: On Elizabeth river; occupied alternately by British and American troops during Revolutionary War; occupied by Confederacy 1861 until recaptured by Federal troops 1862; suffered fire 1821 and yellow-fever attack 1855; nation's first battleship built here 1892.

Names:
Portsmouth (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 Virginia (state)  ............  Virginia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Portsmouth (independent city)  ................  Portsmouth (independent city) (P)
Hierarchy of Portsmouth (inhabited place)  ....................  Portsmouth (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1752 by Colonel William Crawford, justice of Norfolk county
city (C)  ............  since 1858
port (C)
shipbuilding center (C)  ............  first established by wealthy Scottish merchant Andrew Sprowle in 1797; today is site of the Norfolk Navy Shipyard
manufacturing center (C)
county seat (H)  ............  of Norfolk county from 1803 until 1963, when county was disolved & divided into independent cities

Sources and Contributors:
Portsmouth..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 2:752
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 9:632
.......................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51021769
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 752; 2:752
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 632; 9:632
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51021769
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)

 

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