Lafayette
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- Names
Lafayette
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Wabash river, across from West Lafayette; noted for nearby battlefield where, in the Battle of Tippecanoe, General William Henry Harrison defeated Amerindian confederacy in 1811; today city produces pharmaceuticals & prefabricated houses.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- America's Historic Places (1996); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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