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ID: 7014229
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014229
Record Type:
administrative
Niagara Falls (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 079 03 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at great falls on Niagara River, opposite Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; visited by Europeans in 17th cen.; was strategic in French and British struggle for control of Great Lakes; industry grew with arrival of power plant in 1886.
Names:
Niagara Falls
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Manchester
(
H
,
V
)
Fort Schlosser
(
H
,
V
)
............
name of fort built in 1761
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
New York
(state) (
P
)
................
Niagara
(county) (
P
)
....................
Niagara Falls
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
occupied by French & British from 1678; 3 towns merged to form modern city in 1892
city (
C
)
port of entry (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
power production center (
C
)
............
for hydroelectric power
Sources and Contributors:
Fort Schlosser..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 672
Manchester..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 672
Niagara Falls..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36032411
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 672
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36032411
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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