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ID: 7013704
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013704
Record Type:
administrative
Hickory (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 44 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 35.7333
decimal degrees
Long: 081 19 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -81.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in W central N Carolina near foothills of the Appalachian Mountains; grew up around Hickory Tavern (which had been licensed in 1786); industrial activity began with wagon manufacturing in 1880.
Names:
Hickory
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hickory Tavern
(
H
,
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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North Carolina
(state) (
P
)
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Catawba
(county) (
P
)
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Hickory
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1874
city (
C
)
............
incorporated as Hickory Tavern in 1870, as Hickory in 1913
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for furniture, cordage, textiles, hosiery & electronic & electrical components
power production center (
C
)
............
electrical power created by nearby Oxford Dam, on the Catawba River
educational center (
C
)
............
for Lenoir Rhyne College (1891) & Catawba Valley Technical Institute
cultural center (
C
)
............
for Hickory Museum of Art & for Indian Museum
Sources and Contributors:
Hickory..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 388
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 910
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS37037488
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
502
Hickory Tavern..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 910
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 388
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 910
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS37037488
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
502
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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