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Atlantic City Piers
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From the reports of the various Army Corps of Engineers’ district officers having charge of river and harbor improvements, Congressional Committee on Rivers and Harbors, 1913, p.608:
"...Next to this there is a stretch of about 300 feet, now occupied by partially burned and decaying wharves, but the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co. has recently obtained control of this property and is about to construct a terminal to take the place of the one now used by this company at Town Point, which will be mentioned later. These terminals are to consist of a slip, with the landing and a warehouse on both sides. There are to be no mechanical means for handling freight and there is no rail connection.
Next come the warehouse wharves belonging to the Norfolk Warehouse Corporation, where there is an ice plant, a cotton compress and modern cotton warehouses. These wharves also have no rail connection, all the cotton being brought over by barges from various railroad terminals along the harbor. In some cases, the cotton is brought over on house barges, into and from which cotton is rolled on trucks, and in other cases the loaded cars themselves are placed onto floats and are brought over for unloading. There is a small steam derrick for handling ice and land plaster (fertilizer), which is also unloaded at this dock, but there is no mechanical appliances for handling the cotton.
The next docks are those of the Norfolk Coal & Ice Co., where there is a small traveling crane for unloading coal barges or coal cars brought on floats."
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