Port Royal, South Carolina Port Royal, South Carolina Location of Port Royal, South Carolina Location of Port Royal, South Carolina Port Royal is a town on Port Royal Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.
Largely because of annexation of encircling areas (including Parris Island), the populace of Port Royal rose from 3,950 in 2000 to 10,678 in 2010, a 170% increase. As defined by the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau, Port Royal is encompassed inside the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Port Royal is home to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, and Naval Hospital Beaufort.
Port Royal takes its name from the adjoining Port Royal Sound, which was explored and titled by Frenchman Jean Ribault in 1562.
Port Royal was the site of the Naval Battle of Port Royal amid the Civil War.
Later amid the war, it was the one of the sites of the Port Royal Experiment, which encompassed most of the Sea Islands in Union hands.
Due to the benefits of a large and sheltered natural harbor, Port Royal was able to precarious port facilities to support the burgeoning phosphate quarrying activities after the Civil War.
The Port Royal Railroad was instead of from Port Royal to a junction with the chief Charleston and Savannah Railway in Yemassee, thus establishing a territory route for trade and commerce.
A territory rush ensued, and Port Royal was officially incorporated in 1874, 300 years after initial settlement accomplishments.
The port's vitality however began to diminish as the State of South Carolina began to focus on dredging Charleston's harbor and expanding port facilities further up the coast.
In an accomplishment to save costs, the State Ports Authority closed the port facility in Port Royal in 2004.
Scheper Store, and Union Church of Port Royal are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Old Village is the historic center of Port Royal.
Streets running north-south are titled after the capitals of nations whose immigrants have settled in the Port Royal region (Paris, London, Madrid, and Edinburgh).
A large portion of Port Royal's populace lives in the Preserve at Port Royal Apartments, in between the Old Village and Mossy Creek.
Historically, Port Royal's municipal boundaries were defined by Beaufort to the north, the Beaufort River to the east, Parris Island to the south, and Battery Creek to the west.
Since the start of the 21st century however, Port Royal began to aggressively annex lands west and south of its core area, prompting controversy.
Port Royal took in Parris Island Marine Corps Base on October 11, 2000, effectively doubling the municipal populace overnight due to on-base housing.
Port Royal also took in properties in the Shell Point and Burton areas of Beaufort County.
In 2006, Port Royal took in two tracts of territory south of the Broad River based on the so-called line-of-sight rule.
Port Royal has period in recent times by annexation of parcels of territory on the west side of Battery Creek.
Port Royal was previously the end for the Port Royal Railroad, which is being converted to the Spanish Moss Trail, a 14.9 mile rail trail connecting the town with Beaufort and other communities to the north.
Geoff ZIEZULEWICZ, "Judge to hear Port Royal annexation suit", Beaufort Gazette, reprinted in Island Packet, 1 June 2005 "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Port Royal town, South Carolina".
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