Editing Port Royal, South Carolina (section)

==Neighborhoods==
[[File:Port Royal SC Sands Beach Boardwalk.JPG|thumb|right|Sands Beach boardwalk]]
The '''Old Village''' is the historic center of Port Royal.  Streets running north–south are named after the capitals of nations whose immigrants have settled in the Port Royal area (Paris, London, Madrid, and Edinburgh).  Paris Avenue is the primary commercial street in the Old Village.  Immediately north of the Old Village is a low-density residential area known as Mossy Creek, which crosses over into incorporated areas of the city of [[Beaufort, South Carolina|Beaufort]] to the north.  A large portion of Port Royal's population lives in the Preserve at Port Royal Apartments, in between the Old Village and Mossy Creek.

Historically, Port Royal's municipal boundaries were defined by Beaufort to the north, the Beaufort River to the east, [[Parris Island, South Carolina|Parris Island]] to the south, and Battery Creek to the west.  Since the start of the 21st century however, Port Royal began to annex lands west and south of its core area.  The [[Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island|Parris Island Marine Corps Base]] was annexed on October 11, 2000, effectively doubling the municipal population overnight due to on-base housing. Port Royal also annexed properties in the [[Shell Point, South Carolina|Shell Point]] and [[Burton, South Carolina|Burton]] areas of Beaufort County.

Challenges were filed, and the 2000 annexation of undeveloped Rose Island was to be heard by the [[South Carolina Supreme Court]] in 2005. Town representatives said the city annexed Rose Island because it was within the "line of sight" of the Doggett Tract, a group of islands off Shell Point already under the town's jurisdiction.<ref name="annex">[http://www.lowcountrynewspapers.net/archive/node/113342#storylink=cpy Geoff ZIEZULEWICZ, "Judge to hear Port Royal annexation suit"], ''Beaufort Gazette'', reprinted in ''Island Packet'', June 1, 2005</ref>

In 2006, Port Royal annexed two tracts of land south of the [[Broad River (South Carolina)|Broad River]] based on the so-called line-of-sight rule.