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ID: 7014679
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014679
Record Type:
administrative
Utica (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 075 13 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -75.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Mohawk River & Barge Canal; famous Amerindian council stone is nearby; settled by Dutch & Palatinate Germans; British arrived in 1758; destroyed in Tory-Amerindian raid, but rebuilt; grew after arrival of Erie Canal in 1825.
Names:
Utica
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
name was drawn from a hat when village was incorporated in 1798
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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New York
(state) (
P
)
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Oneida
(county) (
P
)
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Utica
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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ancient Amerindian councils met nearby; settled by Europeans in 18th cen.
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1798
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
especially for textiles since 1800s, also produces machinery & electronic equipment
commercial center (
C
)
............
noted as site of first store of FW Woolworth, opened in 1879
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for surrounding dairy & gardening region
educational center (
C
)
medical center (
C
)
............
noted for state psychiatric center
tourist center (
C
)
............
for annual Eisteddfod festival sponsored by citizens of Welsh descent
Sources and Contributors:
Utica..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 977
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 219
..............
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36030599
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 977
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 219
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36030599
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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