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Elmira (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 42 05 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 42.0833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 076 48 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -76.8000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on Chemung River, near Pennsylvania border; settled in 18th cen.; expanded after arrival of Erie Railroad in 1849; noted for cemetery for 3000 Confederate troops who died in Elmira prison camp; was summer home of novelist Mark Twain. |
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| Elmira (preferred,C,V)
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............ | renamed for the daughter of settler, Nathan Teall, in 1828 |
| Newtown (H,V)
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............ | name of original European settlement here |
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Elmira (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled by European-Americans in 1788, incorporated in 1864 |
| city (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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since 1836 |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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produces machine tools, valves, office machines, glass, fire-fighting equipment, automobile & aircraft parts, & steel |
| battlefield (H) |
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site of Battle of Newtown on August 29, 1779, where John Sullivan defeated a combined British & Amerindian force |
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