Shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs, which were adapted to suit musical forms matching the various labor tasks required to operate a sailing ship.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

Private Jacob Parrott, a Union Army volunteer from Ohio, became the first recipient of the medal, awarded to him for his volunteering for and participation in, a raid on a Confederate train in Big Shanty, Georgia on April 12, 1862 during the American Civil War.

* " The Wood Shanty Disappears " from Southern Pacific Bulletin, January, 1962, pp 22 – 26

Many of the hits from this era came from his debut album, 007 ( Shanty Town ).

Lucius Richard O ' Brien ( 1832 – 1899 ), the noted oil and watercolour landscape painter was from Shanty Bay.

Shanty & Mishra ( 2007 ) estimate that annual profits from narcotics is $ 200 billion ; revenues from human trafficking into Europe and the United States are believed to amount to $ 3. 5 billion per year.

Exploring parties arrived from York in 1825 by traveling from Holland Landing and down the Holland River into Lake Simcoe and Shanty Bay.

Shanty may have derived from the Irish seantigh, pronounced shant-tí, meaning " old house ".

The raiders steamed out of Big Shanty, leaving behind startled passengers, crew members, and onlookers, which included a number of Confederate soldiers from Camp McDonald, which stood directly opposite the Lacy Hotel.

The Neeworra Historical Site, situated approximately south east from town on the Carnarvon Highway is the site of the Neeworra Wine Shanty.

The North Barrett Reliever consisted of reconnecting the severed portions of Big Shanty Road, which from I-75's construction in the early 1970s until July 2012 ran only from Bells Ferry Road west under I-575 to Busbee Parkway.

Shanty choirs ( German shantychor, Dutch shantykoor ), often large choral groups that perform only sailor songs, are especially popular in the Netherlands, Germany, and Norway.

Dekker's own songs did not go to the extremes of many other popular tunes, though he did introduce lyrics that resonated with the rude boys starting with one of his best-known songs, " 007 ( Shanty Town )".

On shore, a revival in shanty singing for leisure was facilitated by song collections of the 1920s, especially Terry ’ s The Shanty Book ( in two volumes, 1921 and 1926 ).

The theme song for the television show SpongeBob SquarePants has a shanty-like call and response structure and begins with a melodic phrase that matches the traditional " Blow the Man Down ," presumably because the character “ lives in a pineapple under the sea .” An example of a more tenuous link between a new composition labeled as “ shanty ” and the salient characteristics of the genre, The Pogues recorded a song called “ Sea Shanty .” The only characteristic it appears to share with the shanty genre is a 6 / 8 meter ( displayed by some well known shanties like “ Blow the Man Down ”).

The establishment of Shanty Bay was strongly influenced by the Underground Railroad.

The Watauga River is formed by the confluence of the Shanty Spring Branch and the Green Ridge Branch in Watauga County, North Carolina.

Shanty towns for labourers were built and were swiftly followed by the arrival of all the camp followers associated with the temporary camps of men.

* WRKI-FM in Brookfield, Connecticut plays " Happy Boy " ( bookended by Todd Rundgren's " Bang The Drum All Day " and Jonathan Edwards ' " Shanty ") Fridays around 5pm.

Bellaire is home to several nationally recognized companies including Shanty Creek Resort, Short's Brewery, Traverse Bay Farms, Fruit Advantage, and Deep Wood Press.

Additionally, numerous former players with the Negro Leagues played in the Senior Intercounty Baseball League after the Negro Leagues gradually folded after Jackie Robinson broke the " colour barrier " in 1947, including pitcher Ted Alexander of the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays ( 1950-51 London Majors ); Wilmer Fields ( Brantford Red Sox ); Jimmy Wilkes ( retired jersey # 5 for the Brantford Red Sox, later became a City league umpire after a decade with Brantford ); Gentry ( Geep ) Jessup ( Galt Terriers ); Larry Cunningham ( Galt Terriers, Hamilton Cardinals ); Ed Steele ( Galt ) and Shanty Clifford ( Galt and Brantford ); Luther Clifford ; Max Manning ; Lester Lockett ; Bob Thurman and Stanley Glenn ( St. Thomas Elgins ); all made numerous appearances at Labatt Park in the 1950s.

Shanty towns also tend to lack basic services present in more formally organized settlements, including policing, medical services and fire fighting.

Shanty songs functioned to economize labor in what had then become larger vessels having smaller crews and operating on stricter schedules.

* International Shanty and Seasong Association, based mainly in Germany and the Netherlands, promotes sailor songs through festivals, publications, and sponsorship of performing groups.

In 1932, Lewis recorded " In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town ", which he had performed in the film " The Crooner " with his orchestra.

The Seahouses Festival is an annual cultural event which began in 1999 as a small Sea Shanty festival.

* Shanty, an irregular, low-cost dwelling which, in quantity, form a Shanty town

Shanty towns, which are usually built on the periphery of cities, often do not have proper sanitation, electricity or telephone services.

Kong is known for being the first Jamaican producer to get international hits with long-time collaborator Desmond Dekker, in 1967 with " 007 ( Shanty Town )" and above all in 1969 with " Israelites " which topped the UK Singles Chart in April 1969 and went to number nine on the US charts in July 1969, selling over two million copies.

Noonday Creek Structure Number 16 is a Category II ( low hazard ) earthen dam on Noonday Creek which creates Nelson Lake north of Big Shanty Road.

M-88 crosses the Shanty Creek, which is the namesake of a resort in the area.

Shanty houses ( or " set off " houses ), a post office, a transient hotel, a commissary, and sheds critical to railroad maintenance were the town's only buildings.

The Regiment had been without colours since the Colours of the Simcoe Foresters, presented in 1932, were laid-up in St. Thomas Anglican Church at Shanty Bay, Ontario, near Barrie, on 17 November 1946, when the Regiment was converted to Royal Canadian Artillery.

Shanty performances today reflect a range of musical approaches and tastes.

In the middle of the 19th century, the area now called Port Sanilac was called Bark Shanty.

Shanty Hollow Lake is in the northwest corner of the county.

Currently, the largest employer in the county is Shanty Creek / Schuss Mountain Resort.

This village was originally a lumberjack settlement on the shore of Lake Huron named " Bark Shanty.

Port Sanilac's last elementary school closed in the early 1980s and the building is now used as the Bark Shanty Community Center.

* Mud Shanty Corners – A location where the Moose River Road, the North South Road, and the Wildcat Road intersect ; east of the Village of Port Leyden.

A museum occupying the mine's former Wash Shanty building on the site displays a large collection of mining artifacts.

Shanty Days is an annual celebration held the second weekend of August.

The Concerts in the Park Series begins Wednesday evenings, following the Fourth of July and ends the Wednesday after Shanty Days.

* " In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town " w. Joe Young m. Ira Schuster & Jack Little

During the offseason he was traded to the Boston Braves for Jimmy Welsh and Shanty Hogan.