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ID: 7015683
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015683
Record Type:
administrative
Galena (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 090 25 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.4167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Galena river; developed as French trading post; grew as a town in 19th cen.; was home of Ulysses S Grant.
Names:
Galena
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Fever River
(
H
,
V
)
............
named after early settler, the French trader Le Fèvre
La Pointe
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Illinois
(state) (
P
)
................
Jo Daviess
(county) (
P
)
....................
Galena
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a French trading post; incorporated in 1835
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
............
for zinc & lead
quarrying center (
C
)
............
for marble & granite
Sources and Contributors:
Fever River..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 320
Galena..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS17006663
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
424
La Pointe..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 320
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 320
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS17006663
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
424
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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