The San Luis Pier
by Jonathan Nguyen
Title
The San Luis Pier
Artist
Jonathan Nguyen
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Print
Description
A 540-foot-long wharf was first built here in 1873 by John Harford. Steamships would arrive several times a week at Port Harford (today's Port San Luis), where they would load and unload cargo and passengers. A narrow-gauge railway ran two trains a day to the pier. The cars (drawn by horses) would go out to the end of the pier where a canopy (the roof you see today) sheltered the railroad�s warehouse. Eventually, a steam railroad which had ended at Avila was extended to this wharf. The increased business resulted in a hotel being built on the site (Hotel Marre) and the length of the pier being extended out to 1,500 feet by 1876. Two years later, in 1878, the wharf was destroyed by a tidal wave. The pier was rebuilt but additional repairs were required in 1915. Later, as inland rail routes were developed, the port area deteriorated. When oil was discovered near the Santa Maria River in the 1940s, a new boom started. Today that prosperity continues, but it is due to fishing, both commercial and recreational.
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July 6th, 2015
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