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ID: 7014572
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014572
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Virginia Beach (inhabited place)  Virginia Beach (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 51 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.8500  decimal degrees
Long: 075 58 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -75.9667  decimal degrees

Note: On Atlantic Coast; noted for Jamestown colonists' landing site (1607), a large national wildlife refuge, several colleges, nation's oldest brick building, Adam Thoroughgood House (1636) & the Alan B Shepherd Civic Center (1957), an early Geodesic dome.

Names:
Virginia Beach (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Virginia (state)  ............  Virginia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Virginia Beach (independent city)  ................  Virginia Beach (independent city) (P)
Hierarchy of Virginia Beach (inhabited place)  ....................  Virginia Beach (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a resort town in 1887, after completion of railway link to Norfolk
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1952 & formed as an independent city with the merger of towns of Virginia Beach & Princess Anne in 1963
resort center (C)
military center (C)  ............  became an important base after WW I; site of Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, Oceana Naval Air Station & Fort Story
college center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Virginia Beach..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 998
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 390
.............................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51029034
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 998
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 390
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51029034
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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