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ID: 7015899
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015899
Record Type:
physical
Long Island (island)
Note:
Large island between Long Island Sound & the Atlantic Ocean; given to Plymouth Company by James I in 1620; settled by Dutch & English; today is major residential district for New York City, comprising Suffolk, Nassau, Queens & Kings counties.
Names:
Long Island
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C
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V
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Long Island
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Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Long Island..........
[
BHA
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VP Preferred
]
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Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
685
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Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
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Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
685
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English
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