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ID: 2054936
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2054936
Record Type:
administrative
Mankato (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 09 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.1500
decimal degrees
Long: 093 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -93.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Minnesota river; infamous as site where Sioux Indians were tried & hanged for massacre of nearly 800 settlers & soldiers in 1862; name is derived from Sioux word for blue clay found on riverbanks.
Names:
Mankato
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Camp England
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Minnesota
(state) (
P
)
................
Blue Earth
(county) (
P
)
....................
Mankato
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1852, incorporated in 1868
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for farm machinery & oil refining
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for building materials, dairy products, agricultural processing plants & breweries
trade center (
C
)
............
for dairy products & hogs
transportation center (
C
)
............
for rail
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for dairying
mining center (
C
)
............
for limestone
educational center (
C
)
............
for Mankato State University (1867) & Bethany Lutheran College (1911)
Sources and Contributors:
Camp England..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 564
Mankato..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
394
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 564
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 780
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS27012285
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
724
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
394
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 564
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 780
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS27012285
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
724
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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