The Port was called El Embarcadero up until at least the 1880s;[REF] the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged of a channel between 1886 and 1889, to yield a channel 50ft wide.
Local businessmen and civic leaders formed the Redwood City Harbor Company in the year 1912, establishing the name of the Port for the era of the early 20th century [REF].