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ID: 7014208
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014208
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of New Harmony (inhabited place)  New Harmony (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 07 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.1167  decimal degrees
Long: 087 56 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -87.9333  decimal degrees

Note: Founded by German Pietist religious leader, George Rapp in 1814; sold to Robert Owen in 1825, & established as a Utopian communistic colony; internal discord resulted in breakup of colony in 1828; noted for nearby Angel Mounds, an ancient site.

Names:
New Harmony (preferred,C,V)  ............ name used after 1825
Harmonie (H,V)
Harmony (C,V)

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 Indiana (state)  ............  Indiana (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Posey (county)  ................  Posey (county) (P)
Hierarchy of New Harmony (inhabited place)  ....................  New Harmony (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  site was first settled my prehistoric Mound Builders; town was founded by Germans in 1814
town (C)
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Harmonie..........  [VP]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18011665
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 833
Harmony..........  [VP]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18011665
New Harmony..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 637
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18011665
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 833
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 637
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS18011665
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 833
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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