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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:45:01 -0400
From: Fred Schaff <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: historic gazetteers (fwd)

At 11:37 AM 07/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Elisabeth Filar
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know some good web sites for historic US place
>names -
>> specifically the New England area? We are trying to locate some
>towns that
>> no longer exist and though some gazetteers from about the late
>1700's and
>> early 1800's would work - especially the time of  the War of
>1812.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
>> Elisabeth Filar * Map Librarian
>> Earth Sciences Library * Campus Box 184
>> University of Colorado at Boulder
>> phone: 303-492-7578 * fax:303-735-4879
>> http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ps/map/frontpage.htm
>>
>

        Would the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names help with this?? Try
<shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser> with a few names and see what happens.

Fred Schaff, Spring Grove, PA, USA <[log in to unmask]>
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