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Local History
Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a geographic dictionary which lists features such as populated places, mountains, marshes, schools, cemeteries, and the like. Many provide geographic coordinates to assist in locating the feature on a map. Some gazetteers include facts about each feature, such as population, description, local history, as well as biographical information about previous inhabitants of a place.
There are several searchable gazetteers available via the Internet:
- U.S. Government’s Geographic Name Information System
- U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Resources available in the local history collection:
LH r351.05 C639g
Child, Hamilton. Gazetteer and Business Directory of MonroeCounty for 1869-1870. Rochester, NY: Erastus Darrow, 1869.
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French, J.H., and Frank Place. Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New YorkState for 1860. Reproduced by the Cortland County Historical Society in 1983. Syracuse, NY: R. Pearsall Smith, 1860.
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Gordon, Thomas F. Gazetteer of the State of New York for 1836. Reproduced by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Philadelphia: Thomas F. Gordon, 1836.
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Hough, Franklin B. Gazetteer of the State of New York 1872…History and Statistics of the State. Reproduced by Higginson Book Company. Albany, NY: Andrew Boyd, 1872.