There are also many tiny ( under 100 people ) towns and villages, such as Baranof Warm Springs, Edna Bay, Elfin Cove, Excursion Inlet, Hyder, Meyers Chuck, Pelican, Port Alexander, Port Frederick, Port Protection, and Tenakee Springs.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

* William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling briefly establishes a Scottish colony at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

* Port Alexander

Port Alexander is a city at the southeastern corner of Baranof Island in Petersburg Census Area, Alaska, United States.

Port Alexander is located at ( 56. 239871 ,-134. 657177 ).

Port Alexander is the only city on a small sliver of land at the southeastern corner of Baranof Island that is not part of the City and Borough of Sitka.

Currently, the Port Alexander Historical Society is undertaking the project of creating a small museum celebrating the town's history.

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* The Biggar family, Alexander Harvey Biggar ( 1781-1838 ) and his sons Robert and George, pioneer traders at Port Natal

It is a steel cantilever construction, designed by John Alexander Low Waddell and built under the auspices of the Port of New York Authority, now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which currently operates it.

With the fledgling colony of South Australia only three years old, Alexander Lang Elder ( 1815-1885 ) arrived in Port Misery ( now Port Adelaide ) in 1839 aboard the family-owned Minerva to launch a new arm of the Scottish based merchant and shipping business.

Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.

In 2007, the Port of Singapore is ranked the world's busiest port once again, surpassing Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Captain Hutton of Port Phillip District once told Chief Protector of Aborigines George Augustus Robinson that " if a member of a tribe offend, destroy the whole.

Changes in sea-level, because of local seismic events, such as the earthquakes that devastated Port Royal and Alexandria, or more widespread climatic or changes on a continental scale mean that some sites of human occupation that were once on dry land are now submerged.

The town of Port Leon was once a thriving cotton-shipping hub, with a railroad that carried over 50, 000 tons of cotton a year to be put on ships, usually for shipment direct to Europe.

* the Port Phillip myth ( recorded as told to Robert Russell in 1850 ), describing Port Phillip Bay as once dry land, and the course of the Yarra River being once different, following what was then Carrum Carrum swamp.

Port Royal was once the county seat of Coahoma County.

The Diamond State Base Ball Club also plays at least once per year at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island and also at nearby Port Penn, Delaware.

The end of water deliveries to Ferry Point marked the last gasp of " Port Dixie " as once envisioned.

The land was once covered by stands of pine trees, which were long ago cleared and sent to saw mills at Port Crescent on the mouth of the Pinnebog River.

McMorran Arena once again hosted indoor football with the Port Huron Predators of the Continental Indoor Football League in 2011.

Besides being one of the most important ports on the Missouri-Mississippi river system, Fort Benton was once the " World's Innermost Port ".

A street named " Barnum Ave ." now runs though the area that was once his land, and one of Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry boats is named the " P. T.

Port Royal ( and Perrysville before it ) once was a stop on the old main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

One is Biery's Port, located along the Lehigh River and named for an early family of prominence ; the other is known as " the mansion district ," and comprises Victorian homes once owned by wealthy residents.

The area known as Port Neches was once inhabited by tribes of the coastal-dwelling Karankawa and Atakapa Indians.

The Port Dundas branch has been re-connected to Pinkston Basin, which once formed the terminus of the Monkland Canal, by the construction of of new canal and two locks.

Port Royal was once home to privateers employed to nip at superpower Habsburg Spain's empire when smaller European powers dared not directly make war on Spain.

During the 15th century, New Romney, once a port of great importance at the mouth of the river Rother ( until it became completely blocked by the shifting of sands during the great storm of 1287 ), was considered the central port in the confederation, and the place of assembly for the Cinque Port Courts, the oldest such authority being vested in the ' Kynges high courte of Shepway ', which was being held from at least 1150.

The town centre itself had moved from the Station Road / Dock Street area, to an area that had once been home to a stud farm ( indeed, the former Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council officially referred to the town centre as Stud Farm for housing allocation purposes ) around the crossroads of Sutton Way / Stanney Lane and Whitby Road.

Port Alberni was once an industrial resource-dependent town, with logging and mining being the main economic drivers.