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ID: 7014320
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014320
Record Type:
administrative
South Bend (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 41 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.6833
decimal degrees
Long: 086 15 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -86.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on St. Joseph River; famed as site for negotiations between French explorer La Salle and confederation of Miami and Illinois tribes in 1681; fur trading post was established in 1820; city grew with 19th-cen. industries.
Names:
South Bend
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for the great bend in the river in 1830
Michiana
(
H
,
V
)
Big St. Joseph
(
H
,
V
)
The Bend
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Indiana
(state) (
P
)
................
Saint Joseph
(county) (
P
)
....................
South Bend
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
visited by Europeans in 17th cen., settled in 1820
city (
C
)
............
since 1865
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
was site of pioneering industries, including Studebaker automobiles in 1852 & Singer sewing machines in 1868
university center (
C
)
trade center (
H
)
fur station (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Big St. Joseph..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 39
Michiana..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 39
South Bend..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
11:39
.......................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18015958
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
The Bend..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18015958
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 39; 11:39
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS18015958
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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