San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
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Embarcadero (<strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>)<br />
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />
The Embarcadero's Ferry Building<br />
The Embarcadero is the name given the eastern waterfront roadway of the Port of <strong>San</strong><br />
<strong>Francisco</strong>, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>, California, along <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> Bay. It sits atop an engineered<br />
seawall on filled land.<br />
History<br />
<strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>'s shoreline historically ran south and inland from Clarke's Point below<br />
Telegraph Hill to present-day Montgomerey Street and eastward toward Rincon Point,<br />
enclosing a cove named Yerba Buena Cove. As the city grew, the cove was filled. Over<br />
fifty years a large offshore seawall was built and the mudflats filled, creating what today<br />
is <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>'s Financial District. The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong> Belt Railroad, a short line<br />
railroad for freight, once ran along the Embarcadero.<br />
During the early 20th century when the seaport was at its busiest and before the<br />
construction of Bay Bridge, the plaza in front of the Ferry Building was one of the busiest<br />
areas of foot traffic in the world; only Charing Cross Station in London and Grand<br />
Central Station in New York City were busier. There was once a pedestrian footbridge<br />
that connected Market Street directly with the Ferry building and a subterranean roadway<br />
to move cars below the plaza. In the earliest days, a maze cable car tracks terminated