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ID: 7014584
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014584
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Warwick (inhabited place)  Warwick (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 41 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.6833  decimal degrees
Long: 071 22 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -71.3667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on W shore of Narragansett Bay; settlements in area were destroyed in Indian War of 1675, but mills were rebuilt along the river; today comprises group of around 20 scattered villages united administratively as residential suburb of Providence.

Names:
Warwick (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for Robert, earl of Warwick, who supported founder Samuel Gorton's charter
Shawomet (H,V)  ............ name of 1st European settlement on the site

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 Rhode Island (state)  ............  Rhode Island (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Kent (county)  ................  Kent (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Warwick (inhabited place)  ....................  Warwick (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  Amerindians lived in the area before 1st European settlement on the site in 1642
city (C)
suburb (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for jewelry, silverware, metals & machinery

Sources and Contributors:
Shawomet..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 504-505
Warwick..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 504-505
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS44001140
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 504-505
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS44001140
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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