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ID: 7016154
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016154
Record Type:
administrative
Harpers Ferry (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 19 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.3167
decimal degrees
Long: 077 44 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -77.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Blue Ridge Mountains at confluence of Potomac & Shenandoah rivers; site of US arsenal established in 1796 and seized by John Brown's abolitionist raid; was strategic base in Civil War.
Names:
Harpers Ferry
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Shenandoah Falls
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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United States
(nation) (
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West Virginia
(state) (
P
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Jefferson
(county) (
P
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Harpers Ferry
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1747
town (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
residential center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Harpers Ferry..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS54007794
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
489
Shenandoah Falls..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS54007794
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS54007794
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
489
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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