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ID: 7014108
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014108
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Morristown (inhabited place)  Morristown (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 47 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.7833  decimal degrees
Long: 074 28 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -74.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Was an American Revolutionary center; was Washington's winter headquarters in 1776 & 1779; site of courtmartial of Benedict Arnold (1780), who had attempted to surrender West Point to British; noted for electric telegraph experiments of Morse & Vail 1837.

Names:
Morristown (preferred,C,V)
West Hanover (H,V)
New Hanover (C,V)

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 New Jersey (state)  ............  New Jersey (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Morris (county)  ................  Morris (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Morristown (inhabited place)  ....................  Morristown (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in 1710
town (C)
military center (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Morristown..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34004572
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
New Hanover..........  [VP]
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34004572
West Hanover..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 622
.......................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34004572
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 622
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS34004572
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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