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ID: 7013981
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013981
Record Type:
administrative
Lynchburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 24 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.4000
decimal degrees
Long: 079 08 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on James River; was a Confederate supply base during Civil War & site of Confederate General Early's victory over General Hunter's Federal troops June 1864; seat of Virginia Seminary & College (1888).
Names:
Lynchburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for ferry operator John Lynch, who owned original townsite
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Virginia
(state) (
P
)
................
Lynchburg
(independent city) (
P
)
....................
Lynchburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originated as a ferry landing settled by Quakers in 1757
city (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
produces iron work, shoes, cigarettes, nuclear rectors & semiconductors
agricultural center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
after being connected to Richmond via the James River & Kanawah Canal 1840 & arrival of railroad 1852
Sources and Contributors:
Lynchburg..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 589
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51016299
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 589
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51016299
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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