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ID: 2013558
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2013558
Record Type:
administrative
Redwood City (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 29 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.4833
decimal degrees
Long: 122 14 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -122.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on W shore of San Francisco Bay; once part of Rancho de las Pulgas; economy based on port-related industries, cut-flowers, cement, salt & electronics; Cãnada College opened here in 1968.
Names:
Redwood City
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Embarcadero
(
H
,
V
)
............
until 1858
Mezesville
(
H
,
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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California
(state) (
P
)
................
San Mateo
(county) (
P
)
....................
Redwood City
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
laid out in 1854 as Mezesville by Simon M Mezes
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1866
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1856
port (
C
)
shipbuilding center (
C
)
timber center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Embarcadero..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 990
Mezesville..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 990
Redwood City..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 990
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6026612
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 990
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6026612
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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