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ID: 7015854
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015854
Record Type:
administrative
Flushing (neighborhood)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 45 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 073 49 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -73.8167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at head of Flushing Bay; was named by early settlers for Vlissingen, Holland; later became center of Quakerism in New Netherlands; effort to suppress the faith by governor led to Flushing Remonstrance.
Names:
Flushing
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Vlissingen
(
H
,
V
)
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United States
(nation) (
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New York
(state) (
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New York
(inhabited place) (
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Queens
(borough) (
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Flushing
(neighborhood) (
P
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Place Types:
neighborhood (
preferred
,
C
)
political center (
H
)
............
site of development of Flushing Remonstrance, which was important document in evolution of religious tolerance in USA
Sources and Contributors:
Flushing..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36009333
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Vlissingen..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 298
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 298
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36009333
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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