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ID: 7015966
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015966
Record Type:
administrative
Altoona (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 078 23 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -78.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Allegheny Front separating Atlantic from Mississippi Valley watersheds; area was valued for lead deposits; town was founded by Pennsylvania Railroad Company as base for building railroads in Alleghenies.
Names:
Altoona
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Altona
(
H
,
V
)
............
named for Altona in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Pennsylvania
(state) (
P
)
................
Blair
(county) (
P
)
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Altoona
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
area was settled by European-Americans by the 1760s; town was founded in 1849
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
on Frankstown Trail by 1787, was center on Portage Railroad to haul barges between Juniata & Conemaugh rivers
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Altona..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 302
Altoona..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 302
.................
Lowry, National Image (1985)
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42030287
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 302
..................
Lowry, National Image (1985)
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42030287
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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