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ID: 2006483
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2006483
Record Type:
administrative
Whittier (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 58 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 118 01 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -118.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at foot of Puente Hills; named for poet John Greenleaf Whittier; developed as processing center for local citrus crops; site of Whittier College (1901) & Rio Hondo College (1960).
Names:
Whittier
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
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C
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chosen in 1887 by Aquilia Pickering for a Quaker community on site of Rancho Paso de Bartolo Viejo, founded in 1847
city (
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incorporated in 1898
agricultural center (
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college center (
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Sources and Contributors:
Whittier..........
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VP Preferred
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 643
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6061735
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 643
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6061735
Note:
English
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