A wharf existed here in 1878 and a log pond extended from the foot of Fountain Street to this location as a holding place for logs sent downriver on wooden rafts from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. The riverfront was not really organized at the time other than plants and fishermen and a few wharfs. Many buildings in town were framed from the trimmed logs transported downriver this way with even the rafts being taken apart for the lumber. Don Horton says such logs were also used as interior wall supports in 1840 for the Lock House Museum on Conesteo Street.

In 1904, the Susquehanna Marine Works Company took over the Susquehanna Boat Works that was here on the water. Clarence C. Pusey (1864-1922) who had been owner of the Boat Works became the President of the new company. They had a machine shop for gasoline engines and also built steam and sailing vessels.

The 1930 Sanborn Insurance Map shows the Havre de Grace Shipyard, Inc. on the water here where they built cranes, derricks, barges, and small steel structures. In the mid-1940s it was bought and taken over by Glen M. Wiley (“Pop Wiley” to Gary Pensell) who had just sold his Wiley Manufacturing Company in Port Deposit that he had founded in 1939. Under Wiley, they had created Wiley cranes, barges, tugboats, and ships in Port Deposit.

The Havre de Grace Shipbuilding and Manufacturing Company was located here from around 1967 to 1984, when the waterfront was sold for development of The Log Pond townhouses. A row of three-story townhouses was constructed in 1987 on pilings extending out into the water and was called Concord Place. Their boat slips are in the Log Pond Marina, with an entrance at the foot of Girard Street.