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ID: 7014630
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014630
Record Type:
administrative
Williamstown (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 42 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.7000
decimal degrees
Long: 073 12 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -73.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Hoosic River; noted as site of Williams College, founded in 18th cen.; also is site of earliest observatory in the nation, founded in 1838.
Names:
Williamstown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Willimston
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
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Berkshire
(county) (
P
)
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Williamstown
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1750
town (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
Williams College was chartered as a free school in 1785
Sources and Contributors:
Williamstown..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1021
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25000585
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Willimston..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25000585
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1021
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25000585
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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