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ID: 7013585
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013585
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Charlottesville (inhabited place)  Charlottesville (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 01 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.0167  decimal degrees
Long: 078 28 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -78.4667  decimal degrees

Note: At foot of Blue Ridge Mountains; courthouse seat of Abermale county 1761; notable in 19th cen. as tobacco trade center & as home of presidents Jefferson & Monroe & explorers Lewis & Clark; nearby are Jefferson's home Monticello & Monroe's home Ash Lawn.

Names:
Charlottesville (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for Charlotte Sophia, consort of King George III of England ca. 1730

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 Virginia (state)  ............  Virginia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Charlottesville (independent city)  ................  Charlottesville (independent city) (P)
Hierarchy of Charlottesville (inhabited place)  ....................  Charlottesville (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in the 1730s
city (C)  ............  incorporated as town 1851 & as city 1880
county seat (C)  ............  of Abermale county
agricultural center (C)
university center (C)  ............  home of University of Virginia (founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819) & several technical & community colleges
military center (H)  ............  housed British troops captured at Saratoga during Revolutionary War

Sources and Contributors:
Charlottesville..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 174
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 129
.............................  Historic Buildings: Virginia (1976)
.............................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51005184
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 174
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 129
..................  Historic Buildings: Virginia (1976)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51005184
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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