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  2. Westport, Washington - Wikipedia

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    Westport was officially incorporated on June 26, 1914. Names for the area in the past include Peterson's Point, Chehalis City, and Fort Chehalis.The latter name is for a U.S. Army fort established in 1860 before the town was founded, "ts-a-lis" is the Lower Chehalis word for Westport, meaning "place of sand".

  3. North Hempstead Beach Park - Wikipedia

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    North Hempstead Beach Park (officially known as Bar Beach and Hempstead Harbor Parks) is a beach located on Hempstead Harbor in Port Washington, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is located in and owned and operated by the Town of North Hempstead.

  4. Port Washington, New York - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Census map of Port Washington. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.6 square miles (15 km 2), of which 4.2 square miles (11 km 2) is land and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2), or 25.22%, is water.

  5. Twin Harbors State Park - Wikipedia

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    Twin Harbors State Park is a public recreation area covering 225 acres (91 ha) on the Pacific Ocean two miles south of the town of Westport in Grays Harbor County, Washington. [2] The site was once a U.S. Army training ground, which the state began acquiring for park use in 1937. [ 3 ]

  6. Manhasset Bay - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s, the bay began to switch from the cow-and-fish industry to support services for commercial boating, [3] as it is considered to be one of the best harbors on Long Island Sound with little tidal current except at the entrance and average tidal displacement of only six feet. [4] By the 1980s it was full of marinas and yacht clubs.

  7. Is New Bedford the top commercial fishing port in the United ...

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    The top port in terms of volume is also from Alaska. It’s Dutch Island, Alaska, with a volume of 613.5 million pounds. NOAA Fisheries reported that the U.S. imported 6.1 billion pounds of ...

  8. Sands Point, New York - Wikipedia

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    Sands Point is a village located at the tip of the Cow Neck Peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is considered part of the Greater Port Washington area, which is anchored by Port Washington. The population was 2,712 at the time of the 2020 census.

  9. Port Washington North, New York - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Census map of Port Washington North. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2), of which 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2), or 4.00%, is water. [5] Additionally, Port Washington North is located on the northern half of the Cow Neck Peninsula ...