OldCustomhouse.com
Title
Custom House
Description
The story of The Old Custom House actually had its beginning in 1542 when Don Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo discovered the San Luis Bay and named it Todos Santos (All Saints) because of its beauty. After that, there was a slight lull in the ports history-just a bit over 200 years of obscurity (things tended to move slow in those days).
In 1772, after the building of the Mission San Luis De Tolosa, events started to gain momentum. Ranchers and merchants came in, and as the population grew, so did the need for supplies. Shipping became common in the first half of the 19th Century using Cave Landing as the port 'o' call. But because passengers had to climb a rope ladder up and over the rocky cliffs and supplies had to be lifted up with massive cranes, Cave Landing's history was a short one.
Port San Luis came into its own when the wharves started to be built. There were stage lines and small gauge railroads created to run supplies to and from the Port and San Luis Obispo. Oil companies built pipe lines to the Port to ship out to all points in the Pacific, including shipping oil to Alaska. Finally, right after the Great Fire of San Francisco in 1906 ( and probably because of it), San Luis Bay was designated as an official United States Port of Entry. A $500,000 breakwater was built using rock blasted from Morro Rock and shipping from all over the world kept it quite busy.
Contact
- Compass Health Inc.
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- GROVER BEACH CA
- United States 93433-2263
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- (805) 474-7010
