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    The Oakland Long Wharf was an 11,000-foot railroad wharf and ferry pier along the east shore of San Francisco Bay located at the foot of Seventh Street...
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  • Haven), Connecticut Oakland Long Wharf, California Long Wharf (Portland, Maine) Long Wharf (San Francisco), California Long Wharf (Santa Monica), California...
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    rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. The rail line was built by three private companies...
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    the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, the site of today's Port of Oakland. A number of horsecar and cable car lines were constructed in Oakland during...
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    extending into a body of water to alter water flow Jetty – Low bank or small wharf stretching from the shore into a water span John Simpson (ed), "mole, n...
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    Chicago, passengers generally needed to travel to Oakland, initially on ferries to Oakland Long Wharf, and later on buses to 16th Street Station. It was...
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    region. Construction of the First transcontinental railroad from the Oakland Long Wharf attracted so many laborers from China that by 1870, eight percent...
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    newly constructed Oakland Long Wharf, and the new city of Oakland rapidly developed into a significant seaport. Today the Port of Oakland is the Bay Area's...
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    rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. Its construction was considered to be one of...
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    small wharf there. The Central Pacific Railroad bought the wharf and adjacent properties in 1868, and subsequently constructed the Oakland Long Wharf, a...
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    pier at Alameda, and shortly thereafter to the nearby two-mile long Oakland Long Wharf (later called the "SP Mole") from which San Francisco was then...
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    California Zephyr was a passenger train that ran between Chicago, Illinois, and Oakland, California, via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, Winnemucca, Oroville and...
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  • 1868 Oakland Evening Transcript newspaper begins publication. University of California and Oakland Library Association established. Oakland Long Wharf bought...
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    at Alameda on September 6, 1869. The terminus was switched to the Oakland Long Wharf two months later on November 8, 1869. In 1910, the Southern Pacific...
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  • transportation to Oakland by means of a ferry from San Francisco to a small wharf at Oakland Point where passengers could take a train into Oakland. Service began...
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    constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, the site of today's Port of Oakland. The Daily Alta California recognized this meant Oakland was to become...
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    Middle Harbor Shoreline Park (category Parks in Oakland, California)
    which includes Port View Park, was originally part of the Oakland Long Wharf or Oakland Pier−Mole, which was the massive western terminus of the Southern Pacific...
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    First transcontinental railroad Niles Canyon Railway Oakland Long Wharf San Francisco and Oakland Railroad San Francisco and San Jose Railroad Ute, Grant;...
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  • ferry boats that connected Oakland with San Francisco by water. For this purpose, a massive pier, the Oakland Long Wharf, was built out into San Francisco...
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    months later, Mrs. Sanders drowned when the gangway connecting the Oakland Long Wharf and the El Capitan collapsed. Sanders and his sister also fell into...
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    The city of Oakland, California, was founded in 1852, and was incorporated in 1854. Until the early 20th century, all Oakland mayors served terms of only...
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    On November 8, 1869, the intended western terminus opened at the Oakland Long Wharf, from which ferries connected to San Francisco. These ferries continued...
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    operated by three railroads on the Overland Route between Portland, Oregon, Oakland, California, Los Angeles, California and Chicago. The Southern Pacific...
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    November, 1930. When trains reached Oakland, freight cars were loaded aboard ferries from Long Wharf on Oakland Point beginning in 1870. Freight car...
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    transcontinental railroad that terminated at Alameda Terminal and Oakland Long Wharf that same year. The Western Pacific was also routed through Niles...
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    Pass was completed to Alameda Terminal in September 1869 (and to Oakland Long Wharf in November 1869). [Note: This Western Pacific (1862-1870) is unrelated...
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    San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The Embarcadero continues north past the Ferry Building at Market Street, Pier 39, and Fisherman's Wharf, before ending...
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    It closed in 1997. Alameda Terminal Ferries of San Francisco Bay Oakland Long Wharf "Alameda, California". Abandoned Rails. Archived from the original...
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  • long and that it would be better to change to a route using ferryboats from the planned CPRR's Oakland Pier in Oakland. The decision to make Oakland the...
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    with a 1,200-foot wharf and two gantry cranes. Maersk Line Pacific completes on Pier G a 29-acre container terminal. Port of Long Beach is the largest...
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