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ID: 7014343
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014343
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Roanoke (inhabited place)  Roanoke (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 16 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 079 56 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -79.9333  decimal degrees

Note: Located between Blue Ridge & Alleghany Mountains; site of large railroad shops & offices; expanded with construction of Skyline Drive & Blue Ridge Parkway; site of several universities & colleges.

Names:
Roanoke (preferred,C,V)  ............ renamed in 1882 after Amerindian word for shell money
Big Lick (H,V)  ............ from 1874-1882

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1740
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1884
industrial center (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  produces railroad cars, metal, steel, clothing, chemicals & furniture
transportation center (C)  ............  developed as shipment point for coal deposits on Shenandoah Valley, Norfolk & Western Railroads after 1882
college center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Big Lick..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 100
Roanoke..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 100
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51023024
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 100
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51023024
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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