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ID: 7014307
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014307
Record Type:
administrative
Quincy (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 071 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located SE of Boston; was incorporated in 1792 and renamed after prominent citizen Colonel John Quincy; was home of Presidents John Adams, his son John Quincy Adams and Revolutionary patriot John Hancock; was once famous for granite quarries.
Names:
Quincy
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Mount Wollaston
(
H
,
V
)
Merry Mount
(
H
,
V
)
Brantree
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
................
Norfolk
(county) (
P
)
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Quincy
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by anti-Puritan Thomas Morton as Mount Wollaston in 1625
city (
C
)
............
since 1888
shipbuilding center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
college center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Brantree..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25010886
Merry Mount..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 861
Mount Wollaston..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 861
Quincy..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
861
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25010886
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
997
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 861; (:861
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25010886
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
997
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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