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ID: 2049755
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2049755
Record Type:
administrative
Fairhaven (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 070 54 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Buzzards Bay across the harbor from New Bedford; was settled by Europeans in 17th cen.; British were repulsed in September 1778 during American Revolution; was a whaling center in 19th cen.
Names:
Fairhaven
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Oxford
(
H
,
V
)
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so-named in 1670
Hierarchical Position:
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Bristol
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Fairhaven
(inhabited place) (
P
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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settled in 1670
town (
C
)
fishing community (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fairhaven..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25006589
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
388
Oxford..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 287
Subject:
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[
VP
]
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Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 287
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25006589
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
388
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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