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ID: 7014629
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014629
Record Type:
administrative
Williamsburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 16 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 076 42 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -76.7000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located between Richmond & Newport News; was political & cultural center of Virginia in the 18th cen.; site of colony's first newspaper (1736) & theater (1730); beginning in 1926, John D Rockefeller, Jr. funded restoration of the city.
Names:
Williamsburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Middle Plantation
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Virginia
(state) (
P
)
................
Williamsburg
(independent city) (
P
)
....................
Williamsburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1633
city (
C
)
............
colony's first city to be incorporated, 1722
county seat (
C
)
............
of James City & York counties
cultural center (
C
)
college center (
C
)
............
site of nation's second oldest College, William & Mary, founded in 1693
battlefield (
H
)
............
site of the Battle of Richmond on May 5, 1862 during the Civil War
state capital (
H
)
............
of Virginia from 1699 until moved to Richmond in 1780
Sources and Contributors:
Middle Plantation..........
[
VP
]
................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1021
Williamsburg..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1021
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51030271
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1343
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1021
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51030271
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1343
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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