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Overview

The Public Trust

Waterfront Access Map

Waterfront History Map

Public Transportation

Waterfront Signage

Other Waterfront
Organizations

LWVO Waterfront Study

Horace Carpentier

Port History Excerpts

Excerpts from the History of the Port of Oakland

Here, we present the excerpts from the rich History of the Port of Oakland: 1850-1934:

 Chapter 1 - 6 .

This collection was written in the WPA era under the sponsorship of the State Emergency Relief Administration, Project 3-F2-85.  The writing style and tone changes throughout because there were ten contributing authors working under Supervising Editor DeWitt Jones.

Waterfront Facts

The last landfill project in the Bay was the Port of Oakland’s 7th Street Terminal, created from the excavated contents of the BART tube under the Bay.

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