The San Diego Port District spent $160 million to build a harbor-front convention center.
Dutch and English settlers discovered a smooth, scenic bay on Long Island's North Shore, named it for its oysters and built a harbor town.
KATHRYN MATTHEWS Takin' It Easy in Oyster Bay Dutch and English settlers discovered a smooth, scenic bay on Long Island's North Shore, named it for its oysters and built a harbor town.
Dole constructed Lanai City to house the 150 foreign workers he brought to the island in 1924 to work the fields, planted 15,000 acres with pineapples, built a harbor at Kaumalapau to take his fruit to Honolulu, and then sold the whole thing to Castle & Cook in 1961.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors decided in mid-1916, athehe urging of the Harbor Truck Highway Association (formed mid-1914), to build a Harbor Truck Boulevard stretching about 10 miles (15 km) between Los Angeles and Compton, intended to be used by trucks to the Port of Los Angeles at San Pedro.
A 1922 Annapolis graduate, Captain Clark was commander of Force Mulberry A, a plan to build an artificial harbor just offshore of Omaha Beach at Normandy, complete with huge, pre-fabricated docks capable of handling oceangoing ships and landing craft.
To live, the poet Yehuda Amichai writes, is to build a ship and a harbor at the same time: "And to finish the harbor / long after the ship has gone down".
Along with many who have worked to build a strong NATO, we harbor grave reservations about the pending expansion and the direction it points.
James Henry Carleton, a cavalry officer dispatched from San Francisco to help him, chose a site a half-mile from the harbor to build a base, which was named Camp Drum.
During the French and Indian War, the British needed to build a fortress over the Halifax harbor as protection from the French fleet.
The law prevented, for example, the construction of an elevated highway between the Mississippi riverfront and the historic French Quarter of New Orleans, and it helped persuade officials to build a tunnel under Baltimore's harbor instead of a bridge that would have loomed above Fort McHenry.
