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ID: 7013981
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013981
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lynchburg (inhabited place)  Lynchburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 079 08 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -79.1333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on James River; was a Confederate supply base during Civil War & site of Confederate General Early's victory over General Hunter's Federal troops June 1864; seat of Virginia Seminary & College (1888).

Names:
Lynchburg (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for ferry operator John Lynch, who owned original townsite

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 Lynchburg (independent city)  ................  Lynchburg (independent city) (P)
Hierarchy of Lynchburg (inhabited place)  ....................  Lynchburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  originated as a ferry landing settled by Quakers in 1757
city (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  produces iron work, shoes, cigarettes, nuclear rectors & semiconductors
agricultural center (C)
transportation center (C)  ............  after being connected to Richmond via the James River & Kanawah Canal 1840 & arrival of railroad 1852

Sources and Contributors:
Lynchburg..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 589
....................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51016299
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 589
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51016299
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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