Long Wharf

The register says the wharf went out from this corner in the spring of 1848. Accounts drawn from the wharf company's own history put it a year later: chartered in May 1849 as the Central Wharf company, with William Heath Davis its treasurer, on a strip thirty-five feet wide bought from Mellus and Howard, whose warehouse stood at its head. By 1850 it ran past Davis Street and was the busiest place in town. The fill overtook it within a few years, and the wharf became Commercial Street. Nothing marks the corner.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Beach Overlook — 11 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
• Muir Woods National Monument — 11 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Earthquake Trail — 27 mi
  A short loop along the San Andreas, where a broken fence shows how far Point Reyes moved in under a minute in 1906.
• Kule Loklo — 28 mi
  A Coast Miwok village built in the 1970s to honour a people its builders were told had died out. They had not.

More markers nearby

• Site of What Cheer House — steps away
• Landing Place of Captain J. B. Montgomery — steps away
• Site of Ship Niantic — steps away
• Site of Brick Building of the Firm of Mellus and Howard — steps away