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Aerial view of the Newport Municipal Pier at Newport Beach, California in the 1940s. The original pier was known as McFadden Wharf when it was completed in the summer of 1888 by local landowners James and Robert McFadden. [1] The wharf served as a shipping connection for the McFaddens to offload lumber, hides and other merchandise. [2]
Originally, Balboa Island was little more than a mudflat surrounded by swampland. Today's Newport Harbor emerged only after dredging millions of tons of silt. In the late 1860s, James McFadden and his brother, Robert, purchased a large portion of the future site of Newport, including the oceanfront of Newport Beach, much of Balboa Peninsula, and the sandbars that were to become Balboa Island ...
The first ship to enter the bay was the 105-ton, flat-bottomed sternwheel steamer SS Vaquero with cargo of 15,000 shingles and 5,000 feet of lumber from San Diego. Samuel S. Dunnells built a small wharf called the Newport Landing. Newport Landing and Landing Warehouse was near the current Pacific Coast Highway and the Newport Bay Bridge. James ...
The commission's legal opposition to the project began under Executive Director Peter M. Douglas. [67] In 2014, the McCarthy family sought permitting to construct a home on their property in San Luis Obispo County. The commission first denied permission telling the McCarthys to relocate a path that ran through the family's property.
The Dirt goes where no man has gone before, or, at least, this week.
The peninsula acts as a jetty enclosing the Newport Harbor and Newport Beach's eight islands. The Peninsula is connected from the land via Pacific Coast Highway (SR 1) at Balboa Boulevard, via Bridge at Newport Boulevard from SR 1 (and from Via Lido which connects via bridge to Lido Isle, via Bridge from Newport Island, via Bridge from Bay Isle and via Balboa Island Ferry from Balboa Boulevard ...
The Peninsula Airport Commission has a new member after the Newport News City Council removed former City Council member Sharon Scott and replaced her with business executive John Lawson II.
The Santa Ana Rail Road was formed by the Newport Wharf and Lumber Company on August 23, 1889 to build a railway connection from the lumber company wharf in Newport Beach, California to the national rail network in Santa Ana, California. The 11.71-mile (18.85 km) rail line was built in 1890 and operated as a freight line until passenger service ...