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ID: 7013793
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013793
Record Type:
administrative
Independence (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 094 24 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -94.4000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in W Missouri; home of President Harry S Truman; embarking point for wagon trains for Oregon, Santa Fe & California trails; resentment toward Mormons drove them out in 1833; site of 2 skirmishes with Confederates during Civil War.
Names:
Independence
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for President Andrew Jackson's love for independence & located in county named in his honor
Bristol
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Missouri
(state) (
P
)
................
Jackson
(county) (
P
)
....................
Independence
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1827
city (
C
)
suburb (
C
)
............
of Kansas City, Missouri
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
............
includes Harry Truman Library & Museum, former president's Victorian home & office & World Headquarters for Mormon Church
Sources and Contributors:
Bristol..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS29011021
Independence..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 282
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS29011021
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
534-535
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 282
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS29011021
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
534-535
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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