Port Royal Sound
Port Royal Sound is on the east coast of the United States situated Sund , or a bay of the Atlantic Ocean . It belongs to the Sea Islands region and is located in Beaufort County in the state of South Carolina . The Port Royal Sound is at the same time the estuary of various rivers, the largest of the flowing rivers is the Broad River .
geography
Port Royal Sound lies between the islands of Hilton Head to the south and Port Royal , Saint Helena , Parris and other smaller islands to the north. The Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island is located on Parris Island .
Several rivers flow into the Port Royal Sound, the largest being the Broad River. Other rivers include the Coosawhatchie River, Colleton River, Chechessee River and Pocotaligo River. Many waterways, known in the region as rivers, are actually the Tide subject straits , bays and estuaries connect and disconnect Islands. The Port Royal Sound is joined by some of these waterways with other coastal areas, such as the Beaufort River separates the island of Port Royal from the St. Helena Iceland, while the Port Royal Sound through the Brickyard Creek and the Coosaw River with the Saint Helena Sound is connected . Skull Creek and Mackay Creek separate Hilton Head Island from the mainland and create a link between Port Royal and Calibogue Sound. Another waterway called the Whale Branch separates Port Royal Island from the mainland and connects Port Royal Sound and the Broad River with Saint Helena Sound via the Coosaw River.
The town of Port Royal and the town of Beaufort are located on the island of Port Royal in the Sound.
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway passes the Port Royal Sound.
history
The Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón may have discovered the Port Royal Sound around 1520, but his route is controversial. The sound was named by Jean Ribault in 1562, who established a short-lived Huguenot colony called Charlesfort on Parris Island . In 1566, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded the settlement of Santa Elena in the Port Royal Sound region, which remained an important Spanish colony until around 1587.
In 1633 the Province of Carolina was established and as Charles Town became the center of the colony, Port Royal Sound became a strategically and economically important region in the colony's early years. In the spring of 1684, a group of around 150 Scottish immigrants established a settlement called Stuarts Town on the banks of the Sound. After these colonists incited the Yamasee Indians to attack Spanish-colonized Florida , the site was destroyed by the Spanish in 1686.
Port Royal was one of the first British settlements to exist in the colony of South Carolina. Beaufort, founded around 1710, became the center of the St. Helena Parish region. Between 1685 and 1715, the Yamasee , formed from the Guale and La Tama , were South Carolina's most important indigenous allies. After the Yamasee had been enemies and allies of both the British and the Spanish and had repeatedly crossed the south, they settled in about 10 villages in the region around Port Royal around 1710. Some of the original Indian place names still exist today as place names, for example Altamaha, Chechessee, Pocotaligo and Huspah.
Relations with South Carolina deteriorated noticeably in the early 18th century until the Yamasee decided to attack the colony. After the Yamasee War in 1715, the Yamasee and several other indigenous groups moved from the Port Royal region to the southern side of the Savannah River and became mostly allies of the Spaniards. This left the border area of the colony without protection and as a result several forts were built and ultimately the new Georgia province emerged from this situation .
Fort Frederick was built on Port Royal Island in the 1730s, and today the remains of the fort are protected in the Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve . During the Civil War , Union Navy commander Samuel Francis Du Pont reduced the number of forts that should protect Port Royal Sound at the Battle of Port Royal . It remained under the control of the Union until the end of the war and developed into an important naval base.
According to the United States Geological Survey , there have been several historical names for the sound, including Brayne Sound, Winneau River, Weenea River, Portus Regalis, Port Royal River, and Port Royal Entrance.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The Columbia Gazetteer of North America: Port Royal Sound ( Memento of May 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ [1] in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
Web links
Coordinates: 32 ° 15 ′ 43 " N , 80 ° 40 ′ 41" W.