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ID: 7015753
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015753
Record Type:
administrative
Rutland (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 072 58 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -72.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Otter Creek between Green & Taconic mountains; initial settlers were New England Yankees who arrived in 1770s; arrival of railroad & development of nearby marble quarries initiated growth.
Names:
Rutland
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
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Vermont
(state) (
P
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Rutland
(county) (
P
)
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Rutland
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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was post on military road organized by British general Sir Jeffery Amherst in 1759; was chartered in 1761
city (
C
)
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since 1892
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
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for marble quarries & produces aircraft parts & machinery
manufacturing center (
C
)
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for plywood, gloves, scales & castings
educational center (
C
)
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includes College of Saint Joseph the Provider
resort (
C
)
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for winter sports in Green Mountain National Forest & in nearby Pico Peak
publishing center (
C
)
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Rutland Daily Herald, the oldest newspaper in Vermont, has been published here since 1794
Sources and Contributors:
Rutland..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
9:264-265
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National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
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USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS50004223
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1037
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 264-265; 9:264-265
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS50004223
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1037
Note:
English
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VP
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