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ID: 7014370
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014370
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Terre Haute (inhabited place)  Terre Haute (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 087 24 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -87.4000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on plateau above Wabash river; was meeting place for Amerindians, Shawnees under Tecumseh frequently attacked nearby Fort Harrison; became important town on National (Cumberland) Road; grew with industry based on nearby bituminous coal deposits.

Names:
Terre Haute (preferred,C,V)  ............ meaning "high ground," refers to its location above the river

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 Indiana (state)  ............  Indiana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Vigo (county)  ................  Vigo (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Terre Haute (inhabited place)  ....................  Terre Haute (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  laid out in 1816 on site of established rendevous point for local American Indians
city (C)
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)
university center (C)  ............  Indiana State University was established in 1870
political center (H)  ............  was site of early militant union activity, was home of E Debs who organized first industrial union in 1893

Sources and Contributors:
Terre Haute..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 649
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18016974
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 649
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18016974
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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