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ID: 7003736
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003736
Record Type:
administrative
Santa Monica (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 01 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.0167
decimal degrees
Long: 118 29 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -118.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Santa Monica Bay; laid out in 1875 by Senator John P Jones; named after local spring Las Lágrimas ("the tears") de Santa Monica; promoted as oceanside resort & residential community; Santa Monica City College founded 1929.
Names:
Santa Monica
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
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California
(state) (
P
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Los Angeles
(county) (
P
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Santa Monica
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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was part of Spanish rancho, town was laid out in 1875
city (
C
)
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incorporated in 1886
port (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
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of aircraft equipment since establishment of Douglas Aircraft Company after WW I
Sources and Contributors:
Santa Monica..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
10:428
.......................
National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6057574
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1075
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 428; 10:428
..................
National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6057574
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1075
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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