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ID: 7014447
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014447
Record Type:
administrative
Salem (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 070 53 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.8833
decimal degrees
Note:
Settled by immigrants from Plymouth in early 17th cen.; infamous for witchcraft trials of 1692; was prosperous base for privateers in Revolution & War of 1812; was home of Nathaniel Hawthorne & setting for his novel House of the Seven Gables.
Names:
Salem
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Naamkeek
(
C
,
V
)
Naumkeag
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
................
Essex
(county) (
P
)
....................
Salem
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
site was known to Native Americans; settled by Englishman Roger Conant in 1626
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1836
port (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
products include textiles, leather & shoes
tourist center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
............
noted for architecture, especially the Customs House (1819) & houses by Federal architect Samuel McIntire
shipbuilding center (
H
)
............
during 18th & 19th cen.
religious center (
H
)
............
was site of first Congregational Church in North America in 1629
county seat (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Naamkeek..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25007291
Naumkeag..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 814
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25007291
Salem..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 350
..............
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25007291
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
738
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 814
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 350
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25007291
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
738
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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