I've Waited Here For You

by Laurie Search

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I've Waited Here For You

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Laurie Search

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The old Davenport Pier in Davenport, CA....If you zoom in and look closely, you can see that there's a swing hanging on that first structure! It's blurred because of the wind and the long exposure, but it's there! I would've loved to have gone down onto the beach here, but getting down from up above is very dangerous and was not possible for me to do. Apparently you can get down there by going down to the next beach over and then climbing over some rocks when it's low tide. The tide was not very low at this point and someone was getting hungry and cranky, lol (and it wasn't me.). I reeeally need to go back someday and get down onto that beach! .......... Here is some interesting history on the pier and the area, from Wikipedia: A whaling captain named John Pope Davenport settled at El Jarro Point, about half a mile from today's town, in 1867. Davenport built a 400-foot wharf at the mouth of Agua Puerca Creek ("agua puerca" translates to "muddy water"). This wharf was built to load the lumber brought down from the hills for shipment to Santa Cruz. A small village grew up around the port and was known as Davenport Landing. The local post office began operations in 1874, but was known only as Davenport. Agua Puerca Creek lived up to its name by bringing down so much mud that the port filled up and steamers could not tie up to the wharf to load lumber. A small extension did not solve the problem. Then a competitor built a longer wharf, but it was destroyed in a storm. Captain Davenport went bankrupt and moved to Santa Cruz. The post office in Davenport Landing closed in 1889..........When Captain Davenport went bankrupt, his assets were auctioned off to pay creditors. Among the items auctioned off were whaling items leading to speculation that he carried out whaling activities from the port, especially after he started losing money. However, no eyewitness reports of whaling activities at Davenport Landing have been found...........In 1905, an east coast businessman named William Dingee bought the Santa Cruz Lime Company, which had a lime quarry on the banks of San Vicente Creek, south of Davenport Landing. In the following year, the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company manufacturing plant was built nearby. At that time, the closed Davenport Landing post office opened up in the settlement that grew up around the cement plant. It again only used the name of Davenport; hence, the name of the town..........Davenport has three restaurants, two art galleries, a store, a post office, the Davenport Cash Store, and an elementary school - Pacific School, the only school in the Pacific Elementary School District.

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August 30th, 2017

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