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ID: 7014343
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014343
Record Type:
administrative
Roanoke (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 16 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 079 56 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located between Blue Ridge & Alleghany Mountains; site of large railroad shops & offices; expanded with construction of Skyline Drive & Blue Ridge Parkway; site of several universities & colleges.
Names:
Roanoke
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
renamed in 1882 after Amerindian word for shell money
Big Lick
(
H
,
V
)
............
from 1874-1882
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Virginia
(state) (
P
)
................
Roanoke
(independent city) (
P
)
....................
Roanoke
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1740
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1884
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
produces railroad cars, metal, steel, clothing, chemicals & furniture
transportation center (
C
)
............
developed as shipment point for coal deposits on Shenandoah Valley, Norfolk & Western Railroads after 1882
college center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Big Lick..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 100
Roanoke..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 100
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51023024
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 100
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51023024
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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