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ID: 7014317
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014317
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Oswego (inhabited place)  Oswego (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 076 30 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -76.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Lake Ontario at mouth of Oswego river; most easterly of Great Lakes ports; was first English trading post on Great Lakes in 1720s; fortified and contested in Seven Years' War & War of 1812; today produces machinery, boilers, and textiles.

Names:
Oswego (preferred,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 New York (state)  ............  New York (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Oswego (county)  ................  Oswego (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Oswego (inhabited place)  ....................  Oswego (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded ca. 1722, incorporated in 1848
town (C)
county seat (C)
port (C)  ............  became major port with completion of New York State Barge Canal in 1917, expanded with opening of St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959
industrial center (C)
power production center (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Oswego..........  [BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
.................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36020044
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 904
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, VP]
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36020044
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 904
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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