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ID: 7015853
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015853
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Flatbush (neighborhood)  Flatbush (neighborhood)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 39 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.6500  decimal degrees
Long: 073 57 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -73.9500  decimal degrees

Note: Noted as scene of battle of Long Island in 1776, where British under William Howe defeated Americans under Israel Putnam.

Names:
Flatbush (preferred,C,V)
Midwout (H,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 York (state)  ............  New York (state) (P)
Hierarchy of New York (inhabited place)  ................  New York (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Brooklyn (borough)  ....................  Brooklyn (borough) (P)
Hierarchy of Flatbush (neighborhood)  ........................  Flatbush (neighborhood) (P)

Place Types:
neighborhood (preferred, C)
battlefield (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Flatbush..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36009259
Midwout..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 182
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS36009259
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 182
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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