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ID: 7014183
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014183
Record Type:
administrative
Narragansett (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 27 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.4500
decimal degrees
Long: 071 27 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Narragansett Bay; noted as site of battle between new European colonists & Native Americans in 17th cen.
Names:
Narragansett
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for local Amerindians
Hierarchical Position:
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
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Rhode Island
(state) (
P
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Washington
(county) (
P
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Narragansett
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Europeans in 1675, incorporated in 1901
town (
C
)
resort center (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
............
in 1675, the same year Europeans settled here
Sources and Contributors:
Narragansett..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 640
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS44002751
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 640
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS44002751
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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