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ID: 7015966
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015966
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Altoona (inhabited place)  Altoona (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 078 23 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -78.3833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Allegheny Front separating Atlantic from Mississippi Valley watersheds; area was valued for lead deposits; town was founded by Pennsylvania Railroad Company as base for building railroads in Alleghenies.

Names:
Altoona (preferred,C,V)
Altona (H,V)  ............ named for Altona in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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 Pennsylvania (state)  ............  Pennsylvania (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Blair (county)  ................  Blair (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Altoona (inhabited place)  ....................  Altoona (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  area was settled by European-Americans by the 1760s; town was founded in 1849
city (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)  ............  on Frankstown Trail by 1787, was center on Portage Railroad to haul barges between Juniata & Conemaugh rivers
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Altona..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 302
Altoona..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 302
.................  Lowry, National Image (1985)
.................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS42030287
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 302
..................  Lowry, National Image (1985)
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS42030287
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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