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ID: 7013687
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013687
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hampton (inhabited place)  Hampton (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 01 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.0167  decimal degrees
Long: 076 20 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -76.3333  decimal degrees

Note: Nation's oldest continuously settled community of English origin; sacked during Revolutionary War & War of 1812;; burned by Confederates 1861, to prevent capture by Federal forces; site of St. John's Church (1728) & several institutes of higher learning.

Names:
Hampton (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 Hampton (independent city)  ................  Hampton (independent city) (P)
Hierarchy of Hampton (inhabited place)  ....................  Hampton (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled permanently around nearby Fort Monroe (built 1609) ca. 1610-11, on site of the Amerindian village of Kecoughtan
city (C)  ............  incorporated as city in 1908 & merged with Elizabeth City County & town of Phoebus in 1952
port (C)
fish-processing center (C)
military center (C)  ............  site of Fort Monroe, Langley Air Force Base & Research Center for National Aeronautics

Sources and Contributors:
Hampton..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 670
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51011470
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 670
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51011470
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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