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ID: 2119287
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2119287
Record Type:
administrative
Moundsville (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 55 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 080 44 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -80.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Ohio river; noted for Grave Creek Indian Burial Mound, a conical mound 320 feet in diameter; it is the largest mound made by the Woodland Adena people, who disappeared at the beginning of the Christian era.
Names:
Moundsville
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West Virginia
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Marshall
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Moundsville
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
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C
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originally inhabited by Amerindians
city (
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Sources and Contributors:
Moundsville..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 625
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS54012895
Subject:
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Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 625
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS54012895
Note:
English
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