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ID: 7014647
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014647
Record Type:
administrative
Worcester (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 071 48 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.8000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located W of Boston; industries include machine tools, leather goods & textiles; institutes include College of the Holy Cross (1843), Massachusetts State College (1871) & Clark University (1887).
Names:
Worcester
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Grafton Gore
(
C
,
V
)
Pakachoog
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
................
Worcester
(county) (
P
)
....................
Worcester
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first permanent settlement in 1713
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1848
county seat (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
since construction of Blackstone Canal in 1828
college center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Grafton Gore..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25011055
Pakachoog..........
[
VP
]
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25011055
Worcester..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25011055
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1351
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25011055
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1351
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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