Hampton
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- Names
Hampton
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Nation's oldest continuously settled community of English origin; sacked during Revolutionary War & War of 1812;; burned by Confederates 1861, to prevent capture by Federal forces; site of St. John's Church (1728) & several institutes of higher learning.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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