Long Wharf

San Francisco County · Commercial Street, west of Montgomery, San Francisco · location approximate

In the spring of 1848 the old Central or Long Wharf was built "from the bank in the middle of the block between Sacramento and Clay streets, where Leidesdorff Street now is, 800 feet into the Bay." After 1850 it was extended 2,000 feet and the Pacific mail steamers and other large vessels anchored there. Central or Long Wharf is now Commercial Street.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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