Long Island
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- Names
Long Island
- Place Type
- island
- Description
- Large island between Long Island Sound & the Atlantic Ocean; given to Plymouth Company by James I in 1620; settled by Dutch & English; today is major residential district for New York City, comprising Suffolk, Nassau, Queens & Kings counties.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Died
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