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ID: 7013763
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013763
Record Type:
administrative
Fitchburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 35 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 071 48 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.8000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Mohawk Trail & branch of Nashua River; incorporated as town 1764 & later renamed after prominent citizen John Fitch; expanded with river-powered textile mills & stage lines late 18th cen.; site of Fitchburg State College (1894).
Names:
Fitchburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Turkey Hills
(
H
,
V
)
Fitchburg Centre
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
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Worcester
(county) (
P
)
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Fitchburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled as Turkey Hills in 1740
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1872
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
products include textiles, machinery, paper & metal products, steel, plastic & leather
transportation center (
C
)
............
since construction of Boston & Fitchburg & Vermont & Massachusetts railways in 1840s
Sources and Contributors:
Fitchburg..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 804
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25010263
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Fitchburg Centre..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25010263
Turkey Hills..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 804
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 804
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25010263
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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