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ID: 7014191
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014191
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Natchitoches (inhabited place)  Natchitoches (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 31.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 093 05 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -93.0833  decimal degrees

Note: Oldest permanent settlement in Louisiana Purchase territory; founded by French to forestall Spanish occupation; developed as cotton market, but commercial importance declined after the Red River changed course in 1832; many French colonial homes survive.

Names:
Natchitoches (preferred,C,V)
Nachitoches (C,V)
Fort Saint Jean Baptiste (H,V)  ............ original name given by French; later renamed for the Natchitoches Indians

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 Louisiana (state)  ............  Louisiana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Natchitoches (parish (political))  ................  Natchitoches (parish (political)) (P)
Hierarchy of Natchitoches (inhabited place)  ....................  Natchitoches (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by the French ca. 1714 as Fort Saint Jean Baptiste
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1872
county seat (C)  ............  since 1805
fortified settlement (H)  ............  during 1st half of 18th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Fort Saint Jean Baptiste..........  [VP]
.........................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 528
Nachitoches..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22011720
Natchitoches..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22011720
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 528
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS22011720
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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