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ID: 7013967
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013967
Record Type:
administrative
Olympia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 02 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.0333
decimal degrees
Long: 122 53 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.8833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in W Washington at S tip of Puget Sound; named for nearby Olympic Mountains; chosen as capital of Washington Territory in 1853; mainstay of economy is lumber; is an important regional commercial center.
Names:
Olympia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Smithfield
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Washington
(state) (
P
)
................
Thurston
(county) (
P
)
....................
Olympia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was laid out in 1851 as a United States customhouse
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1859
capital (
C
)
............
since 1853
county seat (
C
)
port (
C
)
............
established in 1851; ships lumber & agricultural produce; site of merchant reserve fleet
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
includes food canning & lumber
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for dairy & oyster farming
port of entry (
C
)
............
was first port of entry on Puget Sound
tourist center (
C
)
............
noted for Olympic National Park & headquarters for Olympic National Forest
educational center (
C
)
............
home of Saint Martin's College & Evergreen State College
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Washington
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007920]
Sources and Contributors:
Olympia..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
AAA: Oregon/Washington (1993)
133-134
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 924-925
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS53014906
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
890
Smithfield..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 925
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
AAA: Oregon/Washington (1993)
133-134
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 924-925; VIII, 925
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS53014906
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
890
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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