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ID: 7014434
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014434
Record Type:
administrative
Saginaw (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 083 57 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -83.9500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Saginaw river, off Lake Huron; site was laced with Amerindian trails & villages were nearby; European-American settlement grew around trading post founded in 1816; grew as fur-trading & pine-lumbering center in 19th cen.
Names:
Saginaw
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
East Saginaw
(
H
,
V
)
Saginaw City
(
H
,
V
)
Fort Saginaw
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Michigan
(state) (
P
)
................
Saginaw
(county) (
P
)
....................
Saginaw
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
Amerindians lived in area before it was settled by European-Americans in 1816; merged with town across the river in 1889
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
port of entry (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
produces automobile parts, graphite, mobile homes, malleable iron & paper products
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for sugar beets & beans
political center (
H
)
............
noted as site where Lewis Cass negotiated treaty with Native Americans in 1819 to acquire much of Michigan for the US
Sources and Contributors:
East Saginaw..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 800
Fort Saginaw..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 800
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS26021015
Saginaw..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS26021015
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1042-1043
Saginaw City..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 800
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 800
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS26021015
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1042-1043
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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