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Piers Near the Campostella Bridge
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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.611:
"...Then comes a short stretch of unimproved property; then the tugboat wharves of Joseph M. Clark, used by tugs and small boats; then a small wharf, in poor condition, pertaining to Hudson Bros.; then a strip of land with a few  wharves in bad condition; and then Smith & MCoy’s marine railway. Here there are a number of slips, at which vessels can lie while undergoing repairs; also a floating drydock which can be sunk so as to vessels of about 15 feet draft. Then comes the small wharf and warehouse of Sanford & Brooks Dredging Co., used as a storage place and for tying up their tugboats and dredges. The above wharves have no rail connection.
Just above the last-mentioned wharf the river is crossed by the Campostella drawbridge.
Above the Campostella bridge no improvements have been undertaken by the United States, and the only terminals are of a number of piles marking the end of pipe lines of Standard Oil Co. To these piles the oil barges are floated and the oil is pumped to the tanks a distance back on the shore."
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