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ID: 7013612
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013612
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Dover (inhabited place)  Dover (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 09 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 075 31 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -75.5167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on St. Jones river; was named after famous English city; modern town has some light industry; noted for 18th-cen. architecture, including mansion of John Dickinson (1740), the Old State House (reconstructed 1787-1792) & Presbyterian church (1790).

Names:
Dover (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Delaware (state)  ............  Delaware (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Kent (county)  ................  Kent (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Dover (inhabited place)  ....................  Dover (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  laid out as site for county courthouse & jail 1717
city (C)  ............  incorporated 1929
state capital (C)  ............  since 1777
county seat (C)
trade center (C)
educational center (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Delaware .......... (state)
..................  (World, North and Central America, United States) [7007239]

Sources and Contributors:
Dover..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 201
..............  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS10000502
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 201
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS10000502
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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