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ID: 2016650
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2016650
Record Type:
administrative
Bristol (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 072 56 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -72.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Pequabuck River in central Connecticut; renamed for Bristol, England; strong Tory affiliation during American Revolution; historically noted as clockmaking center established by Gideon Roberts in 1790.
Names:
Bristol
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
New Cambridge
(
H
,
V
)
Mixville Brook
(
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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Connecticut
(state) (
P
)
................
Hartford
(county) (
P
)
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Bristol
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a section of Farmington or Tunxis Plantation & settled in 1727
city (
C
)
............
chartered in 1911
industrial center (
C
)
............
for automobile parts
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for tools, springs, clocks & ball bearings
cultural center (
C
)
............
includes American Clock & Watch Museum
Sources and Contributors:
Bristol..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 524
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS9000754
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
177
Mixville Brook..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS9000754
New Cambridge..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 524
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 524
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS9000754
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
177
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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