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ID: 7013956
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013956
Record Type:
administrative
Montpelier (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 072 34 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -72.5667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Winooski river in N central Vermont; a log cabin built by Jacob Davis was first structure on site; town developed in late 18th cen.; was given status of state capital in 1801; birthplace of Admiral George Dewey.
Names:
Montpelier
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Vermont
(state) (
P
)
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Washington
(county) (
P
)
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Montpelier
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was chartered by land proprietors from W Vermont & Massachusetts in 1781
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1805
county seat (
C
)
quarrying center (
C
)
............
for granite of which state capital is constructed
manufacturing center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
............
for insurance & state governance
resort (
C
)
............
for skiing
educational center (
C
)
............
includes Vermont College of Norwich University & Community College of Vermont
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Vermont
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007828]
Sources and Contributors:
Montpelier..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 294
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS50003226
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
788
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 294
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS50003226
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
788
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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