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ID: 7014060
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014060
Record Type:
administrative
Gettysburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 49 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.8167
decimal degrees
Long: 077 13 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -77.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located just N of border with Maryland; town is famous for Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought in & around the town during the Civil War (now within the Gettysburg National Military Park).
Names:
Gettysburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
name used after 1800
Gettys-town
(
H
,
V
)
............
named for founder James Gettys in 1780s
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Pennsylvania
(state) (
P
)
................
Adams
(county) (
P
)
....................
Gettysburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
laid out in 1780s, incorporated in 1806
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1800
quarrying center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Gettysburg..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 229
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42009639
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
441
Gettys-town..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 229
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42009639
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 229
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42009639
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
441
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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