Port William (Wendell Berry)

Port William, Kentucky is a fictional American rural town found in each of the novels and short stories and some of the poems of Wendell Berry. The larger region, set along the western bank of the Kentucky River, consists of Port William proper and several outlying farms and settlements around the also-fictional Dawe's Landing, Squire's Landing, Goforth, and Cotman Ridge. The town is set about "twelve miles or better" south of the fictional town of Hargrave and the Ohio River.

It is generally acknowledged that Port William is a fiction inspired by Berry's own hometown of Port Royal, Kentucky. An actual town of Port William, Kentucky was established at the confluence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers in 1792. That name was changed to Carrollton in 1838. Its location on the Ohio River relates it to Berry's larger fictional town of Hargrave.

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