Harrison may refer to:
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Harrison (name)
Harrison is a common patronymic surname of Northern English origin. It means "son of Harry" or "Herry", representing the Middle English pronunciation of the given name Henry. It was in use by the 14th century. It may also be spelled Harrisson, H ...
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Harrison family of Virginia
The Harrison family of Virginia is an American family with a history in politics, public service, and religious ministry, beginning in the Colony of Virginia during the 1600’s. Their descendants include a Founding Father of the United States, ...
, United States
Places
In Australia:
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Harrison, Australian Capital Territory
Harrison is a suburb of the district of Gungahlin in Canberra, Australia. The suburb is named after the former city planner Peter Harrison, who was instrumental in reviving Walter Burley Griffin's plan for the National Capital. The suburb is ...
, suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin
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Inukjuak, Quebec
Inukjuak ( iu, ᐃᓄᒃᔪᐊᒃ, ''Inujjuaq'' or ''Inukjuaq'' in Latin script, meaning 'The Giant') is a northern village (Inuit community) located on Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Innuksuak River in Nunavik, in the region of northern Qu ...
, or "Port Harrison", Nunavik region of northern Quebec, Canada
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Harrison Lake
Harrison Lake is the largest lake in the southern Coast Mountains of Canada, being about 250 square kilometres (95 mi²) in area. It is about 60 km (37 mi) in length and at its widest almost 9 km (5.6 mi) across. Its sou ...
, a lake in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada
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Harrison Hot Springs, resort village in British Columbia, Canada, located on Harrison Lake
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Harrison River
The Harrison River is a short but large tributary of the Fraser River, entering it near the community of Chehalis, British Columbia, Canada. The Harrison drains Harrison Lake and is the ''de facto'' continuation of the Lillooet River, which feed ...
, a tributary of the Fraser River and which is the outlet of Harrison Lake
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Harrison Bay (British Columbia), a side water of the river
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Harrison Mills, British Columbia
Harrison Mills, formerly Carnarvon and also Harrison River, is an agricultural farming and tourism-based community in the District of Kent west of Agassiz, British Columbia. The community is a part of the Fraser Valley Regional District. Harrison ...
, a locality and former mill town at the mouth of the Harrison River
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Harrison Knob, a prominent hill and important archaeological site adjacent to the mouth of the Harrison River
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Harrison Island (Nunavut), Hudson Bay, Nunavut
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Harrison Islands, Gulf of Boothia, Nunavut
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Harrison Settlement, Nova Scotia
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Harrison Avenue
Francis Burton Harrison Avenue, more commonly known as F.B. Harrison Avenue or simply Harrison Avenue (formerly F.B. Harrison Street or Harrison Street), is a major north-south collector road in Pasay, western Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a fo ...
, a main road in Pasay, Metro Manila
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Harrison Plaza
Harrison Plaza (HP) was a shopping mall situated along Harrison Avenue corner Pablo Ocampo Street in the district of Malate in Manila, Philippines. Opened in 1976 and closed in 2019, it was the first modern and major shopping mall located in t ...
, a shopping mall in the City of Manila
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Harrison, Arkansas
Harrison is a city and the county seat of Boone County, Arkansas, United States. It is named after General Marcus LaRue Harrison, a surveyor who laid out the city along Crooked Creek at Stifler Springs. According to 2019 Census Bureau estima ...
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Harrison, Georgia
Harrison is a town in Washington County, Georgia, United States. The population was 489 at the 2010 census.
History
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place as the Town of Harrison in 1886. The community was named after Green B. Harris ...
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Harrison, Idaho
Harrison is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. The population was 203 at the 2010 census. Harrison is located on the eastern shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, immediately south of where the Coeur d'Alene River flows into the lake.
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Harrison, Illinois (disambiguation) Harrison, Illinois may refer to:
*Harrison, Jackson County, Illinois
Harrison is a census-designated place in Jackson County, Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Ch ...
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Harrison, Vigo County, Indiana
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Harrison, Maine
Harrison is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,447 at the 2020 census. A historic resort area, Harrison straddles Long Lake and Crystal Lake. It is part of the Portland– South Portland–Biddeford, ...
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Harrison, Michigan
Harrison is a city in and county seat of Clare County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,150 at the 2020 census.
The community was settled as early as 1877 and was named after William Henry Harrison. Harrison is near the ju ...
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Harrison, Minneapolis
Harrison is a neighborhood in the Near North community in the U.S. city of Minneapolis, located to the west of downtown. Its boundaries are roughly, Olson Memorial Highway to the north, Lyndale Avenue to the east, Bassett Creek to the south, an ...
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Harrison, Montana
Harrison is a census-designated place (CDP) in Madison County, Montana, United States. The population was 137 at the 2010 census, down from 162 in 2000.
The town began as Ferguson, a stage stop on the road to Virginia City. The Northern Pacifi ...
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Harrison, Nebraska
Harrison is a village in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 239 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Sioux County.
History
Harrison was originally called Bowen, and under that name was platted in 1886, when the Fr ...
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Harrison, New Jersey
Harrison is a town in the western part of Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. It is a suburb of the nearby city of Newark, New Jersey, and is located from New York City.
As of the 2 ...
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Harrison, New York
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Harrison, Ohio
Harrison is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The city is located in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area. The population was 9,897 at the 2010 census, and was estimated in 2019 to be 11,896.
History
Harrison was l ...
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Harrison, Roanoke, Virginia Harrison is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke, that initially developed in the 1920s as an early Roanoke suburb. It borders the neighborhoods of Melrose-Rugby and Washington Park on the north, Gilmer on the south, Gai ...
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Harrison, South Dakota
Harrison is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Douglas County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 55 at the 2020 census.
The community was named for Benjamin Harrison, a United States Senator from Ind ...
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Harrison, Tennessee
Harrison is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 7,902 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chattanooga metropolitan area. Harrison Bay State Park, the Hamilton County Landfill, Bear T ...
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Harrison, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
Transportation
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Harrison (automobile), a 1900s American automobile company
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Harrison (Metro-North station) in New York
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Harrison station (CTA) in Chicago, Illinois
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Harrison station (NJT) in New Jersey
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Harrison station (PATH) in New Jersey
See also
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Harison (disambiguation)
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Harrison Audio Consoles
Harrison Audio Consoles is an international company based in Nashville, Tennessee that manufactures high-end mixing consoles, Digital Audio Workstations (DAW), audio plugins, and other audio technologies for the post-production, video productio ...
, maker of broadcast and recording audio equipment, DAWs, and cross-platform plugins.
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Harrison Apartment Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
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Harrison College (Indiana)
Harrison College was a private for-profit college based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with 11 campuses in Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina. The college was founded as Indiana Business College in 1902 in Marion, Indiana. Harrison graduated more tha ...
(formerly Indiana Business College)
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Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, ) was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New Y ...
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''George Harrison'' (album)
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Harrison & Harrison
Harrison & Harrison Ltd is a British company that makes and restores pipe organs, based in Durham and established in Rochdale in 1861. It is well known for its work on instruments such as King's College, Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, and the ...
organ builders
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Harrison and Sons
Harrison and Sons was a major worldwide engraver and printer of postage stamps and banknotes.
History
The company was established in 1750 by Thomas Harrison in Warwick Lane, London; in 1839 Thomas Richard Harrison entered into partnership with Jo ...
postage stamp printers
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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
''Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine'' is an American textbook of internal medicine. First published in 1950, it is in its 21st edition (published in 2022 by McGraw-Hill Professional ) and comes in two volumes. Although it is aimed at a ...
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Harrison Bergeron
"Harrison Bergeron" is a satirical dystopian science-fiction short story by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in October 1961. Originally published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', the story was republished in th ...
'', short story by Kurt Vonnegut
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Harrisonburg, Louisiana
Harrisonburg is a village in and the parish seat of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 348 as of the 2010 census, down from 746 in 2000.
Riley J. Wilson, who held Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat from 1 ...
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Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Justice Harrison (disambiguation) Justice Harrison may refer to:
*Albertis Harrison, associate justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
*George Moffett Harrison, associate justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
*Horace Harrison, associate justice of the Tennessee ...
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