In 1736 work was also begun on Fort Frederica, which is on St. Simons Island, a few miles south of Darien, between Darien and Cumberland Island.

It also has two Metro-North railroad stations for commuter trains into New York City, with a commute of 46 – 50 minutes from Noroton Heights and 49 – 53 minutes from Darien.

Film director Gus Van Sant also went to high school in Darien.

Emmy-winning television producer and writer Tom Gammill also grew up in Darien.

People famous in other fields have also called Darien home: Leslie Groves – military head of the Manhattan Project, lived in town after the project ended.

Local news anchor Rebecca Surran of News 12 Connecticut is also resident of Darien.

* Graham Masterton's novel Picture of Evil, also known as Family Portrait, was set, in part, in Darien, the home of the Gray family, which, like Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray, remain young while their counterparts in a family portrait grow old.

Disraeli was a Jew, as are many of the neoconservatives who helped transform the Republican Party from a cocktail party in Darien into the party of Scalia, d ' Souza, Gonzalez, and Yoo ... Conservatism has not only depended upon outsiders ; it also has seen itself as the voice of the outsider ... the conservative has served as the tribune for the displaced, his movement a conveyance of their grievances.

Premier Parks also added water parks to Darien Lake, Lake Compounce ( right before selling it ), Elitch Gardens, and Great Escape in 1995 and 1996.

The successful alternative hip-hop group also co-founded the Justus League collective, which features other important North Carolina emcees, including L. E. G. A. C. Y., The Away Team, Darien Brockington, Edgar Allen Floe, Chaundon, and Cesar Comanche.

A line was also added to an episode in the dub that claimed Darien used to be a model, but this was never referred to again.

The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, also called the Scottish Darien Company, was an overseas trading company created by an act of the Parliament of Scotland in 1695.

They were divided also by those by business intentions ; some intended to trade in India and on the African coast, as an effective competitor to the English East India Company, while others were drawn to Paterson's Darien scheme, which ultimately prevailed.

* Mamoru Chiba ( also known as Darien Shields ), the only major male character from the Sailor Moon anime and manga series

For the 2006 season, Six Flags moved the Big Kahuna, a family-sized waterslide, from Six Flags AstroWorld to Darien Lake and also moved the Batman The Escape roller coaster from Astroworld into storage at Darien Lake, with possible plans to build it in the future.

Darien Lake in Genesee County is also a popular summertime destination, drawing in crowds from all over Western and Central New York, as well as from southern Ontario.

MacGregor also claimed that one of his ancestors was a rare survivor of the Darien Scheme, a failed Scottish attempt of colonization in Panama in 1690s.

The failure of Scotland's attempts to establish overseas trading colonies, firstly in Nova Scotia then later in the Isthmus of Panama, ( under the ill-fated Darien scheme ), were also in part due to the priority given to English interests over those of Scotland by the sovereign.

Additionally, using this ability, SELMA has also made travel reservations for Darien as well performing research from contemporary sources.

The Isthmus of Panama, also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien, is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

There are not many details of Almagro's activities during this period, but it is known that he accompanied various sailors that left the city of Darien between 1514 and 1515, although Almagro eventually returned and settled in Darien and obtained an encomienda which helped him construct a house and make a living from agriculture.

Her sister Jane ( Jane Wyatt ) invites them to a celebration in her home in Darien, Connecticut, which is known to be a " restricted " community where Jews are not welcome.

The town of Darien ( originally known as New Inverness ) was founded in January 1736 by Scottish Highlanders recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler-soldiers protecting the frontiers of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, the French in the Alabama basin and their Indian allies.

An ambulance service, known as " Darien EMS – Post 53 " is the only ambulance service in the nation staffed and run entirely by high school student volunteers.

The colonization project that became known as the Darien Scheme or Darien Disaster was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called ' Caledonia ' on the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s.

Darien was a stop on the Racine & Southwestern branch line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, better known as the Milwaukee Road.

* Douglas Darien Walker, online entertainer, also known as That Guy With The Glasses.

On January 10, 1736, Lachlan and 176 emigrants, including women and children, arrived on board the Prince of Wales to establish the town of Darien, Georgia, originally known as New Inverness.

The Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known simply as the Cannonball Baker or Cannonball Run, was an unofficial, if not outlaw, automobile race run four times in the 1970s from New York City and Darien, Connecticut, on the U. S. Atlantic coast, to Redondo Beach, a Los Angeles suburb on the Pacific coast.

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist ( played by Gregory Peck ) who goes undercover as a Jew to conduct research for an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut.

In 1977, the NAACP filed separate suits against McIntosh County and the City of Darien, alleging improper districting for county and city commission seats.

In an effort to change with the time the City has changed its form of government to council / manager and has hired the first City Manager in Darien or McIntosh County.

* Official website of the City of Darien, Georgia

By mid-2012 JetBlue will combine the Darien and Forest Hills, Queens, New York City headquarters into its headquarters in Long Island City, Queens.

Image: Kensett John F The Old Pine Darien Connecticut. jpg | John Kensett, The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut, c. 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Reginald Ray was born in New York City in 1942 and raised in Darien, Connecticut and from a very young age found Tibet compelling.

JetBlue plans to combine its Forest Hills and Darien, Connecticut offices, together about 1, 000 employees, into about in the Brewster Building in Long Island City by mid-2012.

By expanding into a parking lot, SplashTown at Darien Lake features several all-new attractions and a repaint of ' Cuda Falls water slide complex in Barracuda Bay, a new lazy river called Floatation Station, Swirl City slide complex with four new slides, and a kiddie wave pool called Lazy Days Lagoon.

The film is based on the 1979 running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an actual cross-country outlaw road race held four times in the 1970s, starting at the Red Ball Garage on 31st Street in New York City ( later the Lock, Stock and Barrel Restaurant in Darien, CT ) and ending at the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, California, just south of Los Angeles.

Image: Kensett John F The Old Pine Darien Connecticut. jpg | The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut, c. 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

This was an unofficial automobile race from New York City and Darien, CT, on the U. S. Atlantic coast, to Redondo Beach, a Los Angeles suburb on the Pacific coast during the time of the newly imposed speed limit set by the National Maximum Speed Law.

: Allenton, Bassett, Belgium, Benet Lake, Big Bend, Bristol, Brookfield, Burlington, Butler, Camp Lake, Cedarburg, Colgate, Darien, Delafield, Delavan, Dousman, Eagle, East Troy, Elkhorn, Elm Grove, Fontana, Franksville, Fredonia, Genesee Depot, Genoa City, Germantown, Grafton, Hartford, Hartland, Honey Creek, Hubertus, Jackson, Kansasville, Kenosha, Kewaskum, Lake Geneva, Lannon, Lyons, Menomonee Falls, Mequon, Merton, Mukwonago, Muskego, Nashotah, New Berlin, New Munster, Newburg, North Lake, North Prairie, Oconomowoc, Okauchee, Paddock Lake, Pell Lake, Pewaukee, Pleasant Prairie, Port Washington, Powers Lake, Racine, Richfield, Rochester, Salem, Saukville, Sharon, Silver Lake, Slinger, Somers, Springfield, Stone Bank, Sturtevant, Sullivan, Sussex, Thiensville, Trevor, Twin Lakes, Union Grove, Vernon, Wales, Walworth, Waterford, Waukesha, West Bend, Whitewater, Williams Bay, Wilmot, Woodworth, and Zenda

The object of the Cannonball Baker was to leave the Red Ball Garage on East 31st Street in New York City, later a venue in Darien, CT, ( the now defunct Lock, Stock, and Barrel restaurant, located in the Goodwives Shopping Center ) usually after midnight, and drive to the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, California in the shortest time possible.

Other parks owned by CNL Income Properties include Darien Lake Theme Park Resort in western New York, Elitch Gardens, Frontier City, SplashTown Waterpark, White Water Bay, and Waterworld Concord, all of which were sold in a $ 312 million purchase from Six Flags.