Cities with "Port" in Their Name

Before roads, before railways, water was the highway. A port was not just a place to dock a boat — it was a commercial lifeline, a point of entry for immigrants, a junction where goods moved between ship and land. American port cities grew at river mouths, lake edges, and ocean harbors, and "Port" in a place name almost always points back to that original purpose: this is where things arrived, and where they left from.