--- In [email protected], "trainfinder22" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did a Wikipedia on this and refers to a Pier or a Wharf... > > We dont have anything that big out here on the canal... > Piers refer to long narrow docks that extend out to the water on the > great lakes...We never use the word Wharf on Fresh Water.. > > We have Marinas and Boat centers and we have ports... > Oddly even places that are a hundred miles inland have port in there > name like Willamsport PA >
Is not Port possibly a corruption of the Low Countries word for a gate. Probbaly a town gate? Perhaps places called port (as above) but without nearby boat access may have had a gate at one time. Tony Brooks
