By Velisha Simmons
EPA.net Staff Writer
Breaking news! Cooley Land is rising from the ashes like a phoenix! This Saturday, a workshop will be held where you, yes YOU, can provide your input on the future appearance of Cooley Landing. But how did the Cooley Landing come to East Palo Alto? Did it come along with the Big Bang theory? How?
Cooley Landing's appearance nowadays would fool you. You probably would never guess all the "who's, what's, where's, and why's" that it has seen. A lot of East Palo Alto's history originated from Cooley Landing.
In the beginning, Cooley Landing was known as Ravenswood Wharf. In the mid 1800s, an educated banker, Isaiah C. Woods, was employed as president for Adams & Company Banking and Express of San Francisco. Woods persuaded Adams & Co. to invest in what he thought would be a new "San Francisco."
After a number of factors combined to spell the doom of the promising port community, on February 22,1854, Adams & Co. closed their doors. Thousands gathered around the bank to withdraw their money, but Woods fled with the money and sought refuge at his Woodside mansion.
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