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    What happened to the Santa Cruz Wharf?
    (Ross Eric Gibson collection) After a big storm damaged the Santa Cruz wharf, repairs were begun, placing an engine and a pile driver on the wharf to pound new pilings into the ocean floor. Then without warning, three sections of the end of the wharf suddenly gave way, taking the equipment and a workman into the sea.

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    Why was the pier closed to the public?
    The end of the pier was already closed to the public for renovations from heavy rain and storms in the last two years. Last month's waves took down construction equipment and a restroom building, according to city officials. Three construction workers serving as project managers and leads for the work fell into the ocean when the wharf collapsed.

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    Why was Santa Cruz a major shipping point?
    For a long time, Santa Cruz was a major shipping point, but without adequate sea-floor depth to easily accommodate deepwater vessels within a mile of shore. Beach Flats was used as a Spanish supply depot for shipping. Yet Spanish galleons had 20 to 30 feet of its hull below the waterline, depending on its cargo weight.

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    Why did Santa Cruz County have a wharve?
    Railroads became important in time, but rail lines were expensive and labor was time consuming to build through the mountains. Shipping was a logical approach for exporting lumber, lime and agricultural products and, as a result, Santa Cruz County has a long history of wharves, including construction and subsequent destruction.

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    How many tons did Santa Cruz ship in 1852?
    As demand sent prices up, in 1852 Santa Cruz shipped 850 tons to San Francisco, plus more tonnage to the gold fields, making Santa Cruz the state’s top producer of potatoes. Santa Cruz also shipped 546,000 feet of lumber, hundreds of pumpkins, thousands of cabbages and 196 passengers on 12 ships making 40 trips.

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    Who started fishing in Santa Cruz?
    As wharf historian Geoffrey Dunn tells us, a descendant of Villa de Branciforte settlers, Fred Perez Sr. established one of the first large scale commercial fishing industries on the Santa Cruz waterfront, continued by his sons. Then John and Sunday Faraola (in California since the Civil War) opened a fish company on the railroad wharf in 1902.

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