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Long Wharf (Santa Monica)
The Long Wharf in Santa Monica, also known as '"Port Los Angeles"' or the '"Mile Long Pier"', was an extensive pier wharf constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in Santa Monica Bay from 1892-1894. When it opened in 1894, it was the longest wharf in the world, measuring approximately 4,700 feet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/4416/rec/5 )〕 It served as a cargo and passenger port until 1913, and in 1919 removal of the wharf started. The wharf, the 1000 foot tip of the pier, was removed by 1920. The remaining 3,600 feet of pier reaming was used as a run down fishing pier until 1933, when remainder of the pier was removed. One of the major imports to the wharf was lumber from Northern ports, to help in the construction boom in Southern California. Southern Pacific Railroad and the street cars of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad served the wharf. Los Angeles Pacific Railroad ran passenger trams to the wharf and from midnight to sunrise ran cargo cars.
The site of the Port Los Angeles Long Wharf is a California Historical Landmark, site number 881.〔(CA.GOV SITE OF PORT LOS ANGELES LONG WHARF, Historical Landmark )〕 The Wharf was North of the current Santa Monica Pier. Today, no trace remains of the pier. The current site of the Long Wharf is now Pacific Palisades and the California State Route 1, at the Will Rogers State Beach lifeguard headquarters. A Historical Landmark monument plaque is at the site, along with a few feet of track.〔(abandonedrails.com, Santa Monica to Port Los Angeles )〕 Long Wharf was at .
==History==
Los Angeles has always lacked a natural harbor. The Southern Pacific Railroad and Collis P. Huntington wanted to create Port Los Angeles at Santa Monica. Southern Pacific president Collis P. Huntington partnered with Nevada Senator John P. Jones the founder of Santa Monica, to build a mile-long, pier wharf into the Pacific Ocean just north of Santa Monica Canyon. The Pier wharf had a double track rail track lines to move cargo and freight on and off the pier quickly. The pier jutting into the bay was vulnerable to storms. The long wharf diverted some shipping from San Pedro Bay, as it did not have a shallow bottom like San Pedro at that time. The political power of Jones and Huntington was used to slow the start of the breakwater construction at San Pedro Bay, while they campaigned for breakwater in Santa Monica bay. The ''Los Angeles Times'' publisher Harrison Gray Otis and U.S. Senator Stephen White pushed for federal support of the Port of Los Angeles at San Pedro Bay. The Free Harbor Fight was settled when San Pedro was endorsed in 1897 by a commission headed by Rear Admiral John Grimes Walker (who later became chair of the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904). With US government support, breakwater construction began in 1899 in San Pedro and the Los Angeles Harbor Commission was founded in 1907. San Pedro Bay port area was annexed to Los Angeles in 1909. The Santa Monica wharf thus lost much of it traffic to San Pedro. Santa Monica almost became as important as the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro as major shipping port. Political struggle between the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Pacific Railroad put an end to the Santa Monica wharf.
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