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Used for Shipping Lumber and Supplies

This is the approximate site of the first wharf authorized by the townof Oakland and constructed by Horace W. Carpentier at the foot of Main Street (now Broadway) in 1852.The wharf was used for...

This is the approximate site of
the first wharf authorized by the town
of Oakland and constructed by
Horace W. Carpentier at the foot of
Main Street (now Broadway) in 1852.
The wharf was used for shipping
lumber and supplies.

This plaque was place by the
Alameda County Historical Society in 1989

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