In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

In the early 21st century, Exxon's headquarters was located in Darien, Connecticut.

Panama was the location in 1698 of the Darien scheme which set up the ill-fated Scottish " New Caledonia " colony in the region west of the Gulf of Darien in the Bay of Caledonia ..

Stone cast Daryl Hannah as Bud Fox's materialistic girlfriend Darien Taylor, but felt that she was never happy with the role and did not know why she accepted it.

The population of Darien was 1, 719 at the 2000 census.

Fort King George ( Georgia's oldest fort ) was built in 1721, near what would become Darien.

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.

On 10 January 1736, 177 emigrants, including women and children, arrived on board the Prince of Wales to establish Darien, which was named after the Darien Scheme, a former Scottish colony in Panama.

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.

By 1737 the constant military activity of the Darien colony was taking its toll and an additional forty-four Highland settlers arrived to expand the town.

These colonists received land grants from the Trustees which specified that the land was to descend to the male or female descendants of the original recipients, in ' Tail General ', this was a unique change as previously, with a few specific exceptions in Darien, all land grants in the American colonies had been granted in ' Tail Male ', descending to the male children.

Marker at Methodist church. Following the Civil War, Darien was rebuilt, with financial aid coming in small part from the family of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who had been killed during the War but had written of his shame in participating in the destruction.

Into the early 1900s, Darien was one of the largest ports for shipping lumber.

When the timber was depleted, Darien became a fishing village, primarily for Georgia wild shrimp.

The Village of Corfu was incorporated in 1868, setting the community off from the Towns of Pembroke and Darien.

The Town of Darien was founded in 1832 from the south part of the Town of Pembroke.

Darien was listed at # 9 on CNN Money's list of " top-earning towns " in the United States as of 2011.

It was not until 1740, however, that the Middlesex Society of the Town of Stamford built the first community church, now the First Congregational Church of Darien ( which stands on the original site at the corner of Brookside Road and the Boston Post Road ).

It was incorporated as the Town of Darien in 1820.

According to the Darien Historical Society, the name Darien was decided upon when the residents of the town could not agree on a name to replace Middlesex Parish, many families wanting it to be named after themselves.

The name originates from the Darien language spoken by the indigenous Cueva, an Indian tribe that was wiped out by the Conquistadors during the 16th century.

In 1954, Darien Lake was dug out and filled.

Son of Jennifer and Rakoth Maugrim, Darien is precisely balanced between Dark and Light, and his choice turns out to be the most difficult of all.

It washed out all bridges between Darien and Savannah.

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

The next day, Dave tells Phil that he and his family will be moving into the cottage in Darien and Kathy will be moving in with her sister next door to make sure they are treated well by their neighbors.

He angrily breaks up with Darien, who refuses to plot against Gekko, her former lover and the architect of her career.

The original suggestion for the South Sea scheme has sometimes been credited to Daniel Defoe, but it is more likely the idea originated with William Paterson, one of the founders of the Bank of England and the Darien Scheme, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Scotland agreeing to Unite with England.

The American / Australian science-fiction television series Time Trax aired from 1993-1994 featured time-traveling police detective Darien Lambert from two centuries in the future, traveling back to present day to apprehend fugitives plotting misdeeds with 22nd-century technology and return them to their proper time.

Streets were lined with cotton bales waiting to be shipped downriver to Darien.

In November in response to the death of two Scots garrisoned on Amelia Island from an ambush by Spanish allied Indians the Darien settlers mobilized and together with forces from South Carolina captured the Spanish forts of Fort Picolata, Fort St. Francis de Pupo, Fort San Diego and Fort Mosa before attempting to lay siege to St. Augustine.

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.

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.

* Darien is the home of the largest Little League Baseball program in the United States with 1, 474 boys and girls participating.

* Country Club of Darien – The club has the second-largest estimated property value of any entity in town, with $ 23. 2 million in assessed value ( equal to 70 percent of estimated actual value ) behind only the Wee Burn Country Club.

The club is the largest taxpayer in Darien, with an assessed property value ( equal to 70 percent of estimated value ) of $ 29. 8 million.

Its mission is simple: to bring together the needs of people in disadvantaged areas of nearby communities with the resources of people in Darien and the surrounding areas, thereby providing basic emergency services to low-income individuals and families living in lower Fairfield County.

Films at least partially filmed in Darien with release date.

Later, in response to Gennadius ' Defence of Aristotle, Plethon argued in his Reply that Plato's God was more consistent with Christian doctrine than Aristotle's, and this, according to Darien DeBolt, was probably in part an attempt to escape suspicion of heterodoxy.

" A New Map of the Isthmus of Darien in America, The Bay of Panama, The Gulph of Vallona or St. Michael, with its Islands and Countries Adjacent ".

The company petitioned the King to affirm their right to the colony however he declined replying that, though he was sorry that the company had incurred such huge loses, to claim Darien would mean war with Spain.

Following the failure of Darien, and with the country's economy damaged, serious machinations began proposing the political union between the two realms of Scotland and England.

In 1695, owing to a disagreement with his colleagues, he withdrew from the board and devoted himself to the colony of Darien, unsuccessfully planted in 1698.

Despite the hodgepodge of groups that can be seen in Darien, it is easy to appreciate identification of the incipient population ( men and women ) with their land, a nascent interest in having their regionalism spoken and preparing dishes of the region.