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ID: 7014729
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014729
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Danville (inhabited place)  Danville (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 35 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 079 23 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -79.3833  decimal degrees

Note: On Dan River; chartered in 1793; during Civil War, was site of Condererate prison camp & for a few days following the siege of Richmond in April, 1865, was seat of Confederacy; birthplace of Lady Astor, first woman to sit in British House of Commons.

Names:
Danville (preferred,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 Virginia (state)  ............  Virginia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Danville (independent city)  ................  Danville (independent city) (P)
Hierarchy of Danville (inhabited place)  ....................  Danville (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled as Fort at Wynn's Falls in 1793
city (C)  ............  incorporated as a town in 1830 & as a city in 1870
manufacturing center (C)  ............  since the 1880s with the construction of the Dan River Cotton Mills, it also produces glass, tobacco, tires & hardware
transportation center (C)  ............  important for tobacco trade & storage since early 19th cen. & especially after completion of railroad 1848
power production center (C)  ............  with the completion of the Dan River Hydroelectric Project in 1938

Sources and Contributors:
Danville..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 881
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51007038
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 881
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51007038
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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