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ID: 7015010
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015010
Record Type:
administrative
Charlestown (neighborhood)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 22 33 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.3765
decimal degrees
Long: 071 03 36 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.0608
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Boston Harbor between mouths of Charles and Mystic rivers; is oldest part of Boston; was almost destroyed in Battle of Bunker Hill.
Names:
Charlestown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Charles Towne
(
C
,
V
)
Charleston
(
C
,
V
)
Charlestown Heights
(
C
,
V
)
Charlton
(
C
,
V
)
Mishawum
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
................
Suffolk
(county) (
P
)
....................
Boston
(inhabited place) (
P
)
........................
Charlestown
(neighborhood) (
P
)
Place Types:
neighborhood (
preferred
,
C
)
............
town was founded here in 1628; part of Boston since 1874
Sources and Contributors:
Charleston..........
[
VP
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25005611
Charlestown..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25005611
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
244
Charles Towne..........
[
VP
]
..........................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25005611
Charlestown Heights..........
[
VP
]
...................................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25005611
Charlton..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25005611
Mishawum..........
[
VP
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25005611
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Google Maps online (2000-)
accessed 16 April 2024
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25005611
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
244
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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