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ID: 7015010
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015010
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Charlestown (neighborhood)  Charlestown (neighborhood)

Coordinates:
Lat: 42 22 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 42.3667  decimal degrees
Long: 071 03 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -71.0500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Boston Harbor between mouths of Charles & Mystic rivers; is oldest part of Boston; was almost destroyed in Battle of Bunker Hill.

Names:
Charlestown (preferred,C,V)
Charles Towne (C,V)
Charleston (C,V)
Charlestown Heights (C,V)
Charlton (C,V)
Mishawum (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 Massachusetts (state)  ............  Massachusetts (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Suffolk (county)  ................  Suffolk (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Boston (inhabited place)  ....................  Boston (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Charlestown (neighborhood)  ........................  Charlestown (neighborhood) (P)

Place Types:
neighborhood (preferred, C)  ............  town was founded here in 1628; part of Boston since 1874

Sources and Contributors:
Charleston..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25005611
Charlestown..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25005611
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 244
Charles Towne..........  [VP]
..........................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25005611
Charlestown Heights..........  [VP]
...................................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25005611
Charlton..........  [VP]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25005611
Mishawum..........  [VP]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25005611
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25005611
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 244
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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