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ID: 7014336
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014336
Record Type:
administrative
Richmond (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 49 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.8167
decimal degrees
Long: 084 53 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -84.8833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on East Fork of Whitewater river on the Ohio border, in a fertile agricultural area; was settled by migrating North Carolina Quakers; is seat of Quaker publications & meetings; noted for annual rose festival.
Names:
Richmond
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
name adopted in 1818, referring to the richness of its soil
Smithville
(
H
,
V
)
............
original name of settlement
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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Indiana
(state) (
P
)
................
Wayne
(county) (
P
)
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Richmond
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1806, amalgamated with neighboring Coxborough in 1818
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
............
for Friends United Meeting (Quakers)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Richmond..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 54
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18013889
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Smithville..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 54
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 54
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18013889
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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