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The District Wharf, commonly known simply as The Wharf, is a multi-billion dollar mixed-use development on the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. It contains the city's historic Maine Avenue Fish Market , hotels, residential buildings, restaurants, shops, parks, piers, docks and marinas, and live music venues.
The Steamboat Wharf in 1839 Bird's eye view of the 6th Street SW wharf and the fish market in 1863 Survey of the wharves at the corner of 7th Street SW and L Street SW. The Washington wharf has hosted a fish market since the 1790s, when fisherman sold their catch directly off their boats. [4]
Wharf under construction on the Upper Mississippi in Fountain City, Wisconsin [1] A wharf (pl. wharves or wharfs), quay (/ k iː / kee, also / k eɪ, k w eɪ / k(w)ay [2]), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
The Wharf, Walton House and Mill House are three houses in Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England. They are part of a complex of buildings bought and expanded by Margot Asquith , wife of the then Prime Minister H. H. Asquith , from 1911 and which formed their country home until his death in 1928.
The Wharf (Holdings) Limited (Chinese: 九龍倉集團), or Wharf (九倉) in short, is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was originally known as The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited and founded by Sir Paul ...
The Kastles Stadium at The Wharf was a tennis stadium on the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, D.C. [1] Built in 2011, the stadium was the home venue for the Washington Kastles tennis team. The stadium was opened on June 14, 2011, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Billie Jean King , Ilana Kloss , District of Columbia mayor Vincent ...
A wharf is a fixed platform where ships are loaded and unloaded. Wharf or Wharfe may also refer to: Places. The Wharf (Washington, D.C.), a multi-use development in ...
The name Wharfe, at least in its present form, derives from the Old Norse hverfi meaning 'a bend, crook, turn', a name implying that the river was winding. [2] [3] [4] However, this Old Norse form was probably adapted from an earlier name: a Roman altar found in Ilkley is inscribed "VERBEIAE SACRUM" ('sacred to Verbeia') and apparently refers to the River Wharfe (personified as a goddess).