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The fictional Kingsport is a larger town combining elements inspired by Halifax and Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. [ 17 ] The famous Canadian poet Bliss Carman wrote a classic poem of courage about a Kingsport schooner named Scud and her fearless twelve-year-old master.
List of communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia. Communities are ordered by the highway on which they are located, whose routes start after each terminus near the largest community. Trunk routes
Kingsport is a city in Sullivan and Hawkins counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee.As of the 2020 census, its population was 55,442. [6] Lying along the Holston River, Kingsport is commonly included in what is known as the Mountain Empire, which spans a portion of southwest Virginia and the mountainous counties in northeastern Tennessee.
Kings County was a four-masted barque built in 1890 at Kingsport, Nova Scotia on the Minas Basin. She was named to commemorate Kings County, Nova Scotia and represented the peak of the county's shipbuilding era. (A much smaller barque also named Kings County had been built in 1871.)
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Canada was a full-rigged ship built in 1891 at Kingsport, Nova Scotia on the Minas Basin and was the largest sailing ship operated in Canada when launched in 1891. Canada was built and owned by Charles Rufus Burgess of nearby Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Despite the decline in wooden shipbuilding, Burgess saw that there was still potential for very ...
Kingsport is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. "Kingsport" may also refer to: Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, a U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area; Kingsport Mets, a minor league baseball team based in Kingsport, Tennessee; Kingsport, Nova Scotia, a village in Nova Scotia
The Cornwallis Valley Railway (CVR) was a historic Canadian railway in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.It was built in 1889 and ran 13.6 miles (21.9 km) from Kentville to Kingsport serving the Cornwallis Township area of Kings County.